An industry friend of mine recently told me that if you mapped world shipping activity it would look like a 1938 battle map with china at the center. So why not do just that? Here are the maps we came up with:
The following map from worldmapper.org uses relative size to show proportion of all shipping containers being loaded and unloaded in each country. (click on map to view pdf version).
Here is a world map showing where wal-mart gets its products:
Here is a chart of world imports to the US for 2007 (to date) :
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2 responses so far ↓
1 Bruce Barry // Jul 19, 2007 at 9:56 am
If you plot the world superpowers over a time line you find that they steadily been moving from East to West. Is China the next world’s superpower? If so in how long?
2 Devon // Jul 19, 2007 at 9:17 pm
Wal-Mart sure doesn’t buy much from Canada, eh
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