Wired.com published a map showing global shipping routes, coloured by their frequency of use, early in 2010. The information was compiled partly with reference to the Automatic Identification System (AIS) that I mentioned in this post about the live shipping map maintained by the University of the Aegean.
Check out the little yellow arc between Cape Town and Richard’s Bay and Durban!
The article that this picture comes from can be found here.
