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Trade Flows

Seaborne cargo movements inferred from AIS — each laden leg is a load call followed by the vessel's next discharge at a different port, chained from our own port-call event model. Tonnage is a deadweight-based estimate; ton-miles use the sea-lane graph (straight-line where a lane isn't yet covered).

2,669

laden legs detected

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Where the ton-miles concentrate

Classified cargo ranked by ton-miles — the freight-work measure a leg count buries.

bn ton-miles

Of the 959 legs with an inferred cargo type, container sailings are 42% of legs but 61% of ton-miles — long-haul boxship legs carry most of the freight work, while liquid-bulk runs are shorter-haul.

Cargo type inferred for 963 of 2669 legs; the remaining 1706 (64%) could not be classified from AIS and are excluded from the breakdown above.

Recent laden legsMost recent discharges first

Origin → Destination	Cargo	Tonnage	Distance	Ton-miles	Transit	Loaded
Rotterdam Europoort Dublin-Ferryport Terminal 2	Container	12kt	622 nm	7.4 m	23.2 d	4 Aug
Emden Eling	Other	7kt	407 nm	2.8 m	9.6 d	17 Aug
Karlskrona Gdynia	Other	8kt	159 nm	1.2 m	0.4 d	26 Aug
Vlaardingen Port of Felixstowe	Other	10kt	120 nm	1.2 m	1.3 d	25 Aug
Thyboron Port of Copenhagen	Dry bulk	3kt	272 nm	916,988	1.2 d	25 Aug
Inkoo Muuga-Port of Tallin	Other	3kt	22 nm	58,398	0.2 d	26 Aug
Cuxhaven Immingham	Other	9kt	329 nm	3.1 m	1.6 d	25 Aug
Valberg Port of Aarhus	Other	3kt	214 nm	619,113	40.3 d	17 Jul
Herre Porsgrunn	Other	3kt	0 nm	0	7.3 d	19 Aug
Altenwerder Port of Hamburg	Container	10kt	0 nm	0	40.3 d	17 Jul
Zaandam Schiedam	Other	4kt	63 nm	237,384	39.3 d	18 Jul
West Vancouver Everett	Other	43kt	110 nm	4.8 m	50.4 d	7 Jul
Hausvikstrand Gdansk	Other	5kt	545 nm	3.0 m	2.7 d	23 Aug
Ijmuiden Stavanger	Other	3kt	444 nm	1.4 m	26.9 d	30 Jul
Sløvåg Aukra	Other	2kt	183 nm	378,852	0.7 d	25 Aug
Mongstadbase Alborg	Liquid bulk	10kt	348 nm	3.5 m	1.8 d	24 Aug
Schiedam Valsneset	Other	2kt	906 nm	1.4 m	54.9 d	2 Jul
Langerbrugge Zaandam	Other	4kt	98 nm	394,127	28.5 d	28 Jul
Stader Sand 's-Gravendeel	Other	4kt	297 nm	1.2 m	1.5 d	24 Aug
Warnemünde Eemshaven	Other	—t	610 nm	—	27.9 d	29 Jul
Elleholm Klaipeda	Other	4kt	207 nm	787,145	0.9 d	25 Aug
Warnemünde Büdelsdorf	Other	2kt	572 nm	977,778	0.5 d	25 Aug
Nowy Port (Gdansk)Halmstad	Other	4kt	342 nm	1.3 m	26.1 d	31 Jul
Brevik Tananger	Dry bulk	6kt	259 nm	1.6 m	0.9 d	25 Aug
Liepaja Zaandam	Other	4kt	886 nm	3.8 m	7.9 d	18 Aug
Howland Hook Barcequillo	Container	22kt	1,526 nm	33.2 m	43.0 d	14 Jul
Antwerp Altenwerder	Liquid bulk	10kt	362 nm	3.7 m	1.7 d	24 Aug
Vlaardingen Immingham	Other	15kt	204 nm	3.1 m	7.4 d	18 Aug
Helle - Forsand Os	Other	1kt	157 nm	194,920	0.5 d	25 Aug
Tervsund Muuga-Port of Tallin	Other	3kt	77 nm	262,975	0.6 d	25 Aug
Landskrona Slite	Other	5kt	313 nm	1.4 m	1.6 d	24 Aug
Pasir Panjang PASIR PANJANG Terminal	Container	50kt	0 nm	0	66.4 d	20 Jun
Port of Oakland Port of Valencia	Container	121kt	8,134 nm	987.3 m	53.3 d	3 Jul
Adelaide Townsville	Dry bulk	26kt	2,135 nm	54.6 m	23.8 d	2 Aug
Hamburg-Mitte Port of Le Havre	Container	5kt	500 nm	2.3 m	2.5 d	23 Aug
Sunderland Büdelsdorf	Other	3kt	423 nm	1.3 m	2.1 d	23 Aug
Eikefet Wilhelmshaven	Other	4kt	500 nm	2.2 m	1.9 d	24 Aug
Odda Kristiansand	Other	3kt	239 nm	644,220	26.2 d	30 Jul
Burnie Boyer	Other	11kt	378 nm	4.3 m	40.8 d	16 Jul
Port of Copenhagen Malmo	Liquid bulk	3kt	11 nm	35,038	21.8 d	4 Aug
Muuga-Port of Tallin Ruisbroek	Other	4kt	1,183 nm	4.6 m	26.1 d	30 Jul
Brofjorden Alborg	Liquid bulk	6kt	67 nm	417,075	0.5 d	25 Aug
Slite Stockholm	Dry bulk	3kt	133 nm	441,518	0.6 d	25 Aug
Lutelandet Wilhelmshaven	Other	4kt	537 nm	2.2 m	2.0 d	23 Aug
Grangemouth Doel	Container	13kt	441 nm	5.7 m	8.2 d	17 Aug
Warnemünde Sodertalje	Other	7kt	459 nm	3.3 m	1.2 d	24 Aug
Moerdijk Sheerness	Dry bulk	4kt	146 nm	559,370	2.0 d	23 Aug
Belfast Livorno	Other	3kt	2,217 nm	7.3 m	33.1 d	23 Jul
Shoreham-by-Sea Kalundborg	Other	5kt	739 nm	3.6 m	25.8 d	30 Jul
Malaga Garlston	Other	5kt	1,378 nm	7.1 m	8.0 d	17 Aug
Vlaardingen Botlek	Liquid bulk	10kt	3 nm	31,131	24.7 d	31 Jul
Thunder Bay Clarkson	Dry bulk	34kt	814 nm	27.4 m	21.8 d	3 Aug
Ruisbroek Antwerp	Other	—t	0 nm	—	6.4 d	19 Aug
Vikkilen Klintebjerg	Other	5kt	228 nm	1.1 m	1.1 d	24 Aug
Botlek Harfleur	Liquid bulk	5kt	250 nm	1.3 m	1.0 d	24 Aug
Eikefet Eemshaven	Other	2kt	483 nm	1.1 m	2.3 d	23 Aug
Warnemünde Falkenberg	Other	2kt	186 nm	416,883	0.8 d	24 Aug
Moerdijk Great Yarmouth	Dry bulk	1kt	106 nm	106,964	0.9 d	24 Aug
Wismar Warnemünde	Other	5kt	21 nm	96,789	25.0 d	31 Jul
Rekefjord Büdelsdorf	Other	3kt	346 nm	1.1 m	1.9 d	23 Aug

Each leg = a load call → the vessel’s next discharge at a different port, from the AIS port-call event model. Tonnage is a deadweight×0.9 proxy (not measured cargo); * marks a straight-line distance where the lane isn’t yet in the sea-route graph. Young and indicative — it densifies and upgrades to true sea-route distances as AIS history deepens. 2669 legs · 44.7 bn ton-miles.