Infographic: Global Shipping Routes

Wired Science has posted an article showing a map of global shipping routes based on GPS data. The article is based on a study that will be published in Journal of the Royal Society: Interface. The top port in the world turns out to be the Panama Canal. The top port in the U.S. turns out to be Houston, which was a surprise to me. From the article:

The team pieced together a year’s worth of travel itineraries from 16,693 cargo ships using data from LLoyd’s Register Fairplay and the Automatic Identification System, which tracks vessels using a VHF receiver and GPS.

Citation: “The complex network of global cargo ship movements” Pablo Kaluza, Andrea Kölzsch, Michael T. Gastner and Bernd Blasius, J. Royal Society: Interface

via Wired Science : A Year of Global Shipping Routes Mapped by GPS

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Paul Adams leads an award-winning, diverse contractor team that runs a federal high performance computing facility where he has worked for 17 years. He loves getting his hands on the latest visualization and computer hardware, astronomy, aerospace engineering, working with the poor, and ringing cowbells.