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  2. Sea lane - Wikipedia

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    Left: This map of shipping routes illustrates the present-day density of commercial shipping in the world's oceans. Right: 16th century and current day trade routes prey to pirating and privateering. Shipping lanes may pose threats to some ocean-going craft.

  3. Northern Sea Route - Wikipedia

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    The Northern Sea Route (NSR) (Russian: Се́верный морско́й путь, romanized: Severnyy morskoy put, shortened to Севморпуть, Sevmorput) is a shipping route about 5,600 kilometres (3,500 mi) long. The Northern Sea Route (NSR) is the shortest shipping route between the western part of Eurasia and the Asia-Pacific region.

  4. Arctic shipping routes - Wikipedia

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    Arctic shipping routes are the maritime paths used by vessels to navigate through parts or the entirety of the Arctic. There are three main routes that connect the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans: the Northeast Passage, the Northwest Passage, and the mostly unused Transpolar Sea Route.

  5. Northwest Passage - Wikipedia

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    Map of the route followed by the US ship SS Manhattan in 1969. The first commercial cargo ship to have sailed through the Northwest Passage was SS Manhattan in August 1969. SS Manhattan, of 115,000 deadweight tonnage, was the largest commercial vessel ever to navigate the Northwest Passage.

  6. Clipper route - Wikipedia

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    The route, devised by the Dutch navigator Hendrik Brouwer in 1611, reduced the time of a voyage between The Netherlands and Java, in the Dutch East Indies, from almost 12 months to about six months, compared to the previous Arab and Portuguese monsoon route. The clipper route ran from west to east through the Southern Ocean, making use of the ...

  7. Trade route - Wikipedia

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    A trade route is a logistical network identified as a series of pathways and stoppages used for the commercial transport of cargo. The term can also be used to refer to trade over bodies of water. Allowing goods to reach distant markets, a single trade route contains long-distance arteries, which may further be connected to smaller networks of ...

  8. Strait of Malacca - Wikipedia

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    From an economic and strategic perspective, the Strait of Malacca is one of the most important shipping lanes in the world. The strait is the main shipping channel between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, linking major Asian economies such as India, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, China, Japan, Taiwan, and ...

  9. Maritime transport - Wikipedia

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    This map of shipping routes illustrates the relative density of commercial shipping in the world's oceans. Further information: Seafarer's professions and ranks A ship's complement can be divided into four categories:

  10. Freight transport - Wikipedia

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    This map of shipping routes illustrates the relative density of commercial shipping in the world's oceans. Freight transport, also referred as freight forwarding, is the physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo.

  11. Strait of Hormuz - Wikipedia

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    Alternative shipping routes Map of the Habshan–Fujairah oil pipeline and the East-West Crude Oil Pipeline. In June 2012, Saudi Arabia reopened the Iraq Pipeline through Saudi Arabia (IPSA), which was confiscated from Iraq in 2001 and travels from Iraq across Saudi Arabia to a Red Sea port. It will have a capacity of 1.65 million barrels per day.