Also known as sea freight, ocean freight is the transportation of goods through the sea. That's the most common way of transporting goods across the world. Goods are loaded on shipping containers, then loaded on the vessel at the respective port and transported to the port nearest to the owner. The most common application of ocean freight is when shipping containers are shipped from one continent to another. The most common example of this would be between Asia and North America, where goods can be shipped from China or Japan to ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach, California