ocean routes
Shipping lane networks
Ocean routes are established paths across the sea that ships follow for commerce, military movement, or exploration.
These corridors developed around prevailing winds, currents, and strategic ports: The spice trade depended on ocean routes through the Indian Ocean.
Modern ocean routes optimize for fuel efficiency and avoid hazards, with major shipping lanes connecting the world's largest ports.
- Northwest PassageArctic shipping channel
- shipping industryCommercial goods transportation sector
- cargo shipsVessels for transporting goods
- mapSpatial representation of terrain
- windAir current outdoors
trade winds · choke points · Strait of Malacca · sea lanes · Cape of Good Hope · navigation · current · tankers · containerization · shipping channels · maritime trade · cargo · compass · tide · sail the seas · channel · open water · high seas
- shippingshipping, cargo ships, container ships, freight, package
- trade routessilk road, Silk Road, cargo routes, merchant routes, commercial routes
- seamanshipseamanship, steering, anchoring, navigation, chartwork
- sea routesshipping lane, Northwest Passage, sea routes, Northeast Passage, sea lanes
- military logisticssupply depots, supply lines, supply depot, resupply, supply ships
- nautical chartsnautical chart, nautical charts, sea chart, marine charts, sea charts
ocean routesoverland routes
Paths across terrain
caravan routes · railway lines · rail routes · air routes · flight paths