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With the recent LNG News I decided to get to work on some maritime visualizations. Above is a bubble graph I created representing the number of ships registered to each flag state.

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This graph is even more interesting, it shows the number of ships registered to each country by foreign owners. Notice the Flags of Convenience? Surprising that the U.S. has 51 flagged ships registered by foreigners.

Data is from the May 15th 2007 version of the CIA World Factbook.
Total number of ships registered worldwide: 33,222
Total number of foreign owned ships: 16,717.
More graphs of this data:

Merchant Marine - Rank Order (top chart): [Continue Reading →]

More information on the possible effects of climate change came to light this week when Australian, British, US and French scientists released their study on the feeding habits of 85 seals from around the world.

The mystery of why the seal crossed the ocean has been resolved.

However, the answer has scientists concerned, because it raises the possibility that the marine food chain close to Antarctica is in decline - and the cause may be climate change.

So… why did the seal cross the ocean?

Just to grab a bite to eat

There is more than one place in the world claiming to be the “World’s Busiest Port”. The main reason being there is no standardized means of evaluating port performance and traffic. Over the past decade Rotterdam (top in total weight of goods shipped) and Singapore (top in volume of ships handled) have argued for the title but since 2005, the Port of Shanghai has exceeded both to become the worlds busiest with a total of 443 million tons of cargo transported.

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