Each tiny dot on this captivating interactive map represents a single cargo ship plying the waters of the world. The mesmerizing digital rendition of global shipping routes is the result of a ...

At any given moment, the world’s oceans are teeming with fleets of commercial ships–carriers packed with barrels of oil, stacks of electronic equipment, or crates of dried goods traveling between ...

On 8 January 2016, the web site Superstation 95 published an article claiming that for the first time in history, there were no cargo ships traveling in the North Atlantic: Commerce between Europe and ...