https://www.shipmap.org/

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Map: Kiln  Research: UCL EI

Data: exactEarth & Clarksons

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New! Stunning high-res maps for print

Due to popular demand the designers of this map, Kiln, are now
selling stunning high-resolution versions of the world "routes" view.
There are two versions available: coloured by ship type over the
inky-blue base map; or just the ship in a single colour a transparent
background so you can overlay or print onto whatever background
colour you like. Contact [email protected] for pricing and further
information.

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Can I embed this map?

Yes. You are welcome to embed this map. Please include a link back to
Kiln somewhere in the text of your article. Use the following embed
code for a fully responsive embed that will adjust to the width of
your website. Feel free to change the height and/or give it a fixed
width if you prefer.

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What can I see?

You can see movements of the global merchant fleet over the course of
2012, overlaid on a bathymetric map. You can also see a few
statistics such as a counter for emitted CO2 (in thousand tonnes) and
maximum freight carried by represented vessels (varying units).

What can I do?

You can pan and zoom in the usual ways, and skip back and forward in
time using the timeline at the bottom of the screen. The controls at
the top right let you show and hide different map layers: port names,
the background map, routes (a plot of all recorded vessel positions),
and the animated ships view. There are also controls for filtering
and colouring by vessel type.

What the are types of ships shown?

The merchant fleet is divided into five categories, each of which has
a filter and a CO2 and freight counter for the hour shown on the
clock. The ship types and units are as follows:

  * Container (e.g. manufactured goods): number of container slots
    equivalent to 20 feet (i.e. a 40-foot container takes two slots)
  * Dry bulk (e.g. coal, aggregates): combined weight of cargo, fuel,
    water, provisions, passengers and crew a vessel can carry,
    measured in thousand tonnes
  * Tanker (e.g. oil, chemicals): same as dry bulk
  * Gas bulk (e.g. liquified natural gas): capacity for gases,
    measured in cubic metres
  * Vehicles (e.g. cars): same as dry bulk

Why do ships sometimes appear to move across land?

In some cases this is because there are ships navigating via canals
or rivers that aren't visible on the map. Generally, though, this
effect is an artefact of animating a ship between two recorded
positions with missing data between, especially when the positions
are separated by a narrow strip of land. We may develop the map to
remove this effect in the future.

Why are there fewer ships visible in the first part of the year?

Unfortunately the data we are using for the map is incomplete for the
first few months of the year: roughly January to April.

Who created this map?

The map was created by Kiln based on data from the UCL Energy
Institute (UCL EI)

Website: Duncan Clark & Robin Houston from Kiln

Data: Julia Schaumeier & Tristan Smith from the UCL EI

Music: Bach Goldberg Variations played by Kimiko Ishizaka

How was the map created?

UCL EI took data showing location and speed of ships and
cross-checked it with another database to get the vessel
characteristics, such as engine type and hull measurements. With this
information they were able to compute the CO2 emissions for each
observed hour, following the approach laid out in the Third IMO
Greenhouse Gas Study 2014. Kiln took the resulting dataset and
visualized it with WebGL on top of a specially created base map,
which shows bathymetry (ocean depth), based on the GEBCO_2014 Grid
(version 20150318), as well as continents and major rivers from
Natural Earth.

Where did you get the data and who paid?

Our data sources for shipping positions are exactEarth for AIS data
(location/speed) and Clarksons Research UK World Fleet Register
(static vessel information). We are very grateful to our funders, the
European Climate Foundation.

I want one too!

If you want to have an installation in your foyer, museum, living
room, you can contact us at [email protected]. We'd be happy to work
on a bespoke version.

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