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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.
Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane handling 20% of global petroleum demand, in response to ...
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 ...
Trains need only a few hours to cover 124 miles (200 kilometers) of flat terrain, a fraction of the time a ship can spend queuing, locking through, and accelerating back to sea speed.
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 ...
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.
A study maps global whale-ship collision risks, showing shipping overlaps with 92% of whale habitats. Only 7% of high-risk zones have mitigation measures. Targeted actions, including rerouting and ...
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 ...