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Types Of Ships – A Master List Of Vessel Types

By On May 28, 2011

We recently had to map out all ship types for a client of Unofficial Networks, the maritime consulting arm of gCaptain.  This is only the first draft so I’m sure [...]

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Crossing The English Channel Visualized – The BBC’s Britian From Above

By On July 22, 2009

The English Channel is the busiest shipping lane in the world: on a typical day over 400 vessels travel through the Dover Straits. In a new series titled Britain From [...]

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American Flag Turns Gray – New Paris MOU Rankings Target US Ships

By On June 5, 2009

In an official statement the Paris MOU writes: At its 42nd meeting last month, the Paris MoU Committee approved the 2008 inspection results and adopted new performance lists for flag [...]

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Container Shipping Companies – The Ten Largest Visualized

By On March 7, 2009

UDPATED: January 2012 The data visualization above represents the worlds 10 largest container shipping companies by TEU capacity. WORLD TEU CAPACITY: 15,899,687 For those who prefer more traditional data we [...]

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2008 Ship Incidents Visulized In Words

By On December 31, 2008

The above image is a wordle extraction of the keywords found in this year’s Casualties Report List. The link speaks for itself but to summarize… it’s been a very unsafe [...]

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Modern Pirate Maps – Avoiding The X Might Be Your Best Option

By On November 22, 2008

Pirate maps have long been the a source of intrigue but modern day treasure hunters more often use advance technology like remote operated vehicles and sonar systems than maps stamped [...]

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Piracy Map

By On October 7, 2008

The International Chamber of Commerce brings us the live piracy map. The red markers are actual attaks as reported to the Maritime Security Hotline.

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gCaptain Visualized In Words

By On July 15, 2008

This is a word cloud depicting the most commonly used words this week on gCaptain. Thanks to Peter Mello for pointing us to this neat feature at wordle.

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Maritime Casualties Charted

By On April 18, 2008

Reader Adam sent us this image of the latest marine casualties charted by type. Click on the HERE for the interactive image or HERE for other versions of this data. [...]

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30 Days of San Francisco Ship Traffic – Charted

By On April 2, 2008

Click Image For Hi-Resolution Version/ Being technologically oriented ship drivers we are easily excited by new web sites that combine these interests. Having worked closely with web based AIS (Digital [...]

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