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A story map - how giant container ports stitch together the global economy

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This is a really cool. An interactive map showing the fifty largest container ports and their volumes, the size of the trade lanes between them ? and  it has satellite maps showing the ports themselves. Not quite hours of fun, but definitely worth a few ...

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  • Rick Eyerdam

    May 15, 2013 at 3:59 pm

    Freeport Grand Bahama is a major transshipment hub for MSC. It does not even appear on this map.
    Cool, nevertheless

    • Gavin van Marle

      May 15, 2013 at 5:02 pm

      Hi Rick,

      This is the top 50 container ports – big as Freeport is, I’m pretty sure it’s outside the top 50.

      Kind regards,
      Gavin

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