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Quiz - Which Port Detained The Most Ships in 2007?

May 20th, 2008 · Comments

Let’s check our collective intellegence with a short Quiz:

Congratulations to the 5 readers with the correct answer: Antwerp.

The top ten ports for ship detentions are:

  1. Ship Detention Statistics by PortAntwerp
  2. Bandar Abbas
  3. Novorossiysk
  4. Constantza
  5. Ningbo
  6. Shanghai
  7. Nikolayev
  8. Gladstone
  9. Koper
  10. Singapore

Details can be found at the very interesting site Lloyds MIU

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10 Busiest US Container Ports Visualized

December 5th, 2007 · Comments

Visualizations :  Container Ports By Size

U.S. International Container Trades by Port, 2001-2006 Visualized (Thousand TEU’s)
Source: Port Import/Export Reporting System (PIERS). Detailed data available at www.piers.com.

More Visualizations (that you can play with!) over at IBM’s Many Eyes Project:

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Google World Port Map

October 23rd, 2007 · Comments

Name This Port

Do you think you can name this port? If so visit HERE to vote. This google map is brought to you by World Port Source which provides interactive satellite images, maps and contact information for 2,626 ports in 187 countries around the world.

Also click HERE to quickly find any port using their regional map of the world.

More interested in finding maps for boaters? Panbo has many great tips in his charting category found HERE.

Related Links:

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