Here is an article on maritime transportation. I don't get to feature similar topics here as mostly I have written about land and air transport. I thought this article is interesting because it describes maritime transport traffic volume. Statistics like these appear to be trivial but are important especially from the perspective of logistics as well as, if you delve in to it, maritime security.
Piper, G. (July 11, 2023) "The busiest shipping routes in the world by the numbers," Medium, https://grantpiperwriting.medium.com/the-busiest-shipping-routes-in-the-world-by-the-numbers-c09571ad5af6 [Last accessed: 8/2/2023]
To quote from the article:
"The vast majority of world trade sees Asia as the focal point. Both Europe and North America do heavy volumes of trade with Asia, mostly imports. But three of the five busiest shipping routes in the world are all internal routes. Europe-Europe, North America-North America, and Asia-Asia. That means that vast amounts of global trade are still relatively local.
Large importers like the United States and England drive massive amounts of trade. Large exporters, like China, Korea, and Japan, also drive massive amounts of trade. The areas where these terminuses link up are the busiest hotspots for global trade."
A while back in 2004-2005, I was involved in an inter-regional passenger and freight flow study in the Philippines. We gathered data on maritime transport and were able to derive the OD tables for inter-regional and inter-island passenger and freight flow. Unfortunately, those studies and surveys had no follow-up or updating afterwards. There is a saying that "you can't manage what you can't measure." This applies to transport as well so perhaps there are data somewhere and someone's using them. We hope government agencies are able to collect the data required to analyze and improve maritime transport in the country.
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