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    The document summarizes the boom in global shipping trade over recent decades. It lists major ports and shipping routes around the world, and shows that world imports have increased dramatically since 1948, with the shipping industry tripling its tonnage since 1970 to now carry over 90% of global trade by volume. Shipping routes connect major ports across Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, South America, and between continents via the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

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    The document summarizes the boom in global shipping trade over recent decades. It lists major ports and shipping routes around the world, and shows that world imports have increased dramatically since 1948, with the shipping industry tripling its tonnage since 1970 to now carry over 90% of global trade by volume. Shipping routes connect major ports across Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, South America, and between continents via the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

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    The document summarizes the boom in global shipping trade over recent decades. It lists major ports and shipping routes around the world, and shows that world imports have increased dramatically since 1948, with the shipping industry tripling its tonnage since 1970 to now carry over 90% of global trade by volume. Shipping routes connect major ports across Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, South America, and between continents via the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

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    The boom in shipping trade

    Southampton Bergen Vancouver Le Havre Long Beach Houston New York Marseille Hamburg Rotterdam Antwerp

    Pusan Gwangyang Dalian Qinhuangdao Tianjin Qingdao Ulsan Yokahama Nagoya

    Ningbo Kaohsiung Guangzhou Hongkong Pacific Ocean

    Shanghai

    Pacific Ocean Sa Paulo Sa Sebastiao Tubarao Atlantic Ocean Richards Bay Indian Ocean

    Singapore

    Port Hedland Dampier Gladstone Newcastle

    US$ thousand million 12

    2006 Rest of the World 2003 North America Asia 1993 Europe

    Major merchandise port Major shipping routes Projected shipping routes


    Sources: John Vidal, Shipping boom fuels rising tide of global CO2 emissions, The Guardian, February 13 2008; Atlas du Monde Diplomatique 2006, Armand Colin; Panorama des ports de commerce mondiaux 2003, ISEMAR, January 2005; Images conomiques du monde 2002, Sedes.

    10 8 6 4 2 0 1948

    World Imports
    [ The shipping industry ] now carries more than 90% of the world's trade by volume, and has tripled its tonnage since 1970. 1983 1953 1963 1973

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