Seaports and Trade Routes

Increasing globalisation has meant that the volume of goods transported by sea has risen enormously over recent years and decades. Tankers, bulk carriers and container ships are the most important means of transportation of our time. Each year, billions of tonnes of goods are transported around the world in around 100,000 ships along just a few main routes. In 1970, two and half billion tonnes of

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Trade routes

Tags: Global Switzerland, Economy and Energy, International Trade, Energy, Economy
Spatial extent: World
Spatial unit: World
Time: 2020
Distinction: Hamburg, Genoa, Rotterdam, Antwerpen

Map objects: Aalborg, Aarhus, Aberdeen, Abidjan, Ad Dammam, Adelaide, Agadir, Ahus, Al ‘Aqabah, Alesund, Algeciras, Alger, Aliaga, Alicante, Altamira, Ambarli, Amsterdam, Antsiranana, Antwerp, Arkhangelsk, Ashdod, Averoy, Balboa, Baltimore, Banana, Bandar Abbas, Barcelona, Bata, Beirut, Belfast, Benghazi, Bergen, Big Creek, Bilbao, Bodo, Boston, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Brest, Brevik, Brisbane, Bristol, Buenaventura, Buenos Aires, Busan, Cadiz, Callao, Camden, Cape Town, Cartagena, Casablanca, Castellon de la Plan, Catania, Caucedo, Charleston, Chennai, Chester, Civitavecchia, Cochin, Coega, Colombo, Colón, Conakry, Cork, Coronel, Cotonou, Cuxhaven, Dakar, Dalian, Dar es Salaam, Degrad des Cannes, Derince, Djibouti, Dongguan/Humen, Douala, Drammen, Dublin, Dudinka, Dumyat, Dunkerque, Durban, Egersund, El Iskandariya, Eregli, ew York/New Jersey, Felixstowe, Ferrol, Floro, Fort-de-France, Fortaleza, Fos-sur-Mer, Fredericia, Fredrikstad, Fremantle, Gavle, Gdansk, Gdynia, Gebze, Gemlik, Genova, Georgetown, Gibraltar, Gijon, Gioia Tauro, Gjemnes, Glomfjord, Goteborg, Grangemouth, Greenock, Grundarfjordur, Guangzhou, Guayaquil, Gwangyang, Hai Phong, Haifa, Halifax, Hamand, Hamburg, Hammerfest, Hango, Harstad, Harwich, Haugesund, Havik, Haydarpasa, Hazira, Helsingborg, Helsingfors, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Houston, Hoyanger, Huelva, Hull, Husoy – Tonsberg, IJmuiden/Velsen, Ikornnes, Immingham, Iskenderun, Itapoa, Izmir, Jakarta/Tanjung Priok, Jebel Ali, Jeddah, Jubail, Kaliningrad, Karachi, Karleby, Kemi/Tornea, King Abdullah City, Kingston, Klaipeda, Kobe, Kobenhavn, Kolkata, Kollafjordur, Kotka, Kribi, Krishnapatnam, Kristiansand, la Pallice, La Spezia, Laem Chabang, Lagos, Lanzarote, Larvik, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Latakia, Le Havre, Leixoes, Lianyungang, Libreville, Limassol, Lisboa, Liverpool, Livorno, Lome, Lomonosov, London Gateway Port, Longoni, Los Angeles/Long Beach, Luanda, Lubeck, Majunga, Malabo, Malaga, Maloy, Manila, Manzanillo, Maputo, Mariel, Marina di Carrara, Marsaxlokk, Marseille, Masan, Melbourne, Mersin, Miami, Mina Khalifa, Misurata, Moa, Mobile, Molde, Mombasa, Montevideo, Montoir-de-Bretagne, Montreal, Moroni, Mosjoen, Moss, Mostaganem, Mundra, Mutsamudu, Anjouan, Muuga, Nagoya, Napoli, Natal, Navegantes, Nelson, New Orleans, Nhava Sheva/Mumbai, Ningbo-Zhoushan, Norfolk, Norrkoping, Nouadhibou, Nouakchott, Noumea, Oakland, Odda, Oran, Oranjestad, Orkanger, Oskarshamn, Oslo, Oxelosund, Paita, Panama City, Papeete, Paramaribo, Paranagua, Philadelphia, Piraeus, Pitea, Point-a-Pitre, Pointe Noire, Port-of-Spain, Port Everglades, Port Gentil, Port Klang, Port Louis, Port Said, Portsmouth, Posorja, Puerto Angamos, Puerto Bolivar, Puerto Limon, Qingdao, Qinzhou/Beihai/Fangcheng, Rauma, Reydarfjordur, Reykjavik, Richards Bay, Riga, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande, Rizhao, Rodman, Rotterdam, Rouen, Sagunto, Saint-John, Saint Petersburg, Salalah, Salerno, Salten, Salvador, San-Pedro, San Antonio, San Juan, Santa Cruz de Teneriffa, Santa Marta, Santos, Savannah, Seattle/Tacoma, Setubal, Shanghai, Sheerness, Shenzhen, Shimizu, Sines, Singapore, Skagen, Sodertalje, Southampton, Soyo, Stockholm, Stokmarknes, Suape, Sundsvall, Sunndalsora, Svelgen, Svolvar, Sydney, Szczecin, Taicang/Suzhou, Taipei, Takoradi, Tallinn, Tananger, Tanger Med, Tanjung Pelepas, Tanjung Perak/Surabaya, Tarragona, Tauranga, Teesport, Tekirdag, Tema, Terneuzen, Thessaloniki, Thorshavn, Tianjin, Tilbury, Tokyo, Tornio (Tornea), Toulon, Tripoli, Tromso, Trondheim, Turbo, Tyne, Umea, Ust’-Luga, Valencia, Valko (Valkom), Vancouver, Varberg, Vasteras, Venezia, Veracruz, Vigo, Visakhapatnam, Vlissingen, Vung Tau, Walvis Bay, Waterford, Wilhelmshaven, Willemstad, Wilmington, Xiamen, Yilport, Yingkou, Yokohama, Zarate, Zeebrugge