This map plots the colonial shipping lanes used by the British, the French, the Spanish, and the Dutch in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In this infographic, we rank the world's 10 largest maritime shipping companies by container capacity and fleet size.
China's lockdown of Shanghai is causing massive back-ups at the world's largest container port. Hundreds of ships are now waiting at sea.
Amazon's shipping costs have surged to over $150 billion - a number that has almost doubled since the start of the pandemic.
The Port of Los Angeles is the busiest port in America. It's also at the center of a massive container backlog.
The Suez Canal is an important waterway, connecting trade between Asia and Europe. Here are the details surrounding its blockage.
As the Arctic becomes more accessible due to reduced ice cover, countries with polar real estate increasingly viewing the region through an economic lens.
Millions of tons of cargo get moved in and out of the U.S. every day. Which companies are bringing goods in, and which are shipping them...
Every day, millions of tons of goods pass through ports to get to their end consumers. Here are the world's busiest ports, and how numbers have...
Globalization owes a lot to the humble shipping container. See the massive scale of global container shipping, and which countries are moving the most units.
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