Map from MarineTraffic of shipping routes through Red Sea on Match 21, 2025 with rough boundaries of area of operations of Ansar Allah, known as the Houthis.

Global. A Map of the World's Shipping Lanes. Despite the speed that information travels these days, tangible products still must be shipped.

Scientists have come up with the first comprehensive map of global shipping routes based on actual itineraries. The team pieced together a year’s worth of travel itineraries from 16,693 cargo ...

Could a sudden drop in pollution from cargo vessels criss-crossing global shipping lanes be inadvertently making the world hotter? The main reason for global warming is the heat-trapping emissions ...

One of those is the Taiwan Strait, a 100-mile-wide strip of water between Taiwan and mainland China, which has become a critical shipping lane for countries across the globe.

Did cuts to shipping emissions spur more global warming? - The IMO estimated its fuel mandate would cut emissions of sulphur oxide by 8.5 million tonnes a year.

Last June, research published in the academic journal Earth System Science Data reported that sulphur oxide emissions from the shipping industry declined 7.4 million tonnes between 2019 and 2020.