By March 2024, traffic through the Suez Canal and Bab el-Mandeb Strait had halved, while shipping via the Cape of Good Hope surged by 100 percent, according to a World Bank report.

In a University of Washington-led paper published in t he journal Science, UC Santa Barbara researchers add some clarity to that picture and it’s sobering: Global shipping traffic overlaps with about ...

Then we had our whale distribution maps, we made a map of global shipping traffic. Maybe this is too in the weeds, but basically these shipping vessels have to transmit these signals called ...

Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane handling 20% of global petroleum demand, in response to U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.

A map of maritime traffic around Taiwan underscores the importance of the self-ruled island to global trade as Taipei gears up for elections. Open-source ship-tracking website MarineTraffic ...

By correlating global ship traffic with country-level trade data, the researchers provide what they say are the first academically rigorous estimates of the volume of trade through the Taiwan Strait.

By 2024, the Red Sea faced an unprecedented shipping crisis and a decline in traffic. By March 2024, traffic through the Suez Canal and Bab el-Mandeb Strait had halved, while shipping via the Cape ...

It’s well known that cargo vessels and whales don’t mix; whale-ship collisions are one of the leading causes of death for the majestic creatures. However, No paywalls.