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The world's busiest shipping lane is the Dover Strait, with 500–600 vessels passing through daily. In 1999, 1.4 billion tonnes gross, carried by 62,500 vessels, passed through the strait. [ 2 ] The strait serves as a critical chokepoint for international trade, connecting the North Sea to the English Channel and facilitating maritime traffic ...
Map of the Arctic region showing the Northern Sea Route, in the context of the Northeast Passage, and Northwest Passage [1]. The Northern Sea Route (NSR) (Russian: Се́верный морско́й путь, romanized: Severnyy morskoy put, shortened to Севморпуть, Sevmorput) is a shipping route about 5,600 kilometres (3,500 mi) long.
Ptolemy's world map implied that Africa was part of an outer landmass, separating the Atlantic from the Indian Ocean. The early Portuguese Empire centered around the Cape Route. In 1500, Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral used the prevailing winds on the Atlantic for a volta do mar, and thereby became the first European to arrive in ...
Arctic shipping routes are the maritime paths used by vessels to navigate through parts or the entirety of the Arctic. There are three main routes that connect the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans: the Northeast Passage , the Northwest Passage , and the mostly unused Transpolar Sea Route . [ 2 ]
Similarly, the Saint Lawrence Seaway connects the port cities on the Great Lakes in Canada and the United States with the Atlantic Ocean shipping routes, while the various Illinois canals connect the Great Lakes and Canada with New Orleans. Ores, coal, and grains can travel along the rivers of the American Midwest to Pittsburgh or to Birmingham ...
This map of shipping routes illustrates the relative density of commercial shipping in the world's oceans. Freight transport , also referred to as freight forwarding , is the physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo . [ 1 ]
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The Northeast Passage (blue) and an alternative route through the Suez Canal (red). The Northeast Passage (abbreviated as NEP; Russian: Северо-Восточный проход, romanized: Severo-Vostochnyy prokhod, Norwegian: Nordøstpassasjen) is the shipping route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, along the Arctic coasts of Norway and Russia.