shipping route
Cargo vessel corridor
A shipping route is an established path across water that vessels follow to transport cargo or passengers between ports.
Major shipping routes connect commercial hubs and often follow the most efficient course given weather patterns, ocean currents, and geographic constraints: The Suez Canal is part of a critical shipping route between Europe and Asia.
The term occasionally applies to overland freight corridors.
- sea laneEstablished maritime route
- port of callScheduled ship stopover
- straitConstricted marine passage
- cargoTransported goods
- cargo holdVessel's storage area
channel · freight · piracy laws · Cape of Good Hope · supply chain · Suez Canal · nautical mile · trade winds · shipping manifest · GPS navigation · dead reckoning · marine pollution · international waters · logistics · fleet · berth · passage · open sea
- logisticsshipping, delivery, warehouses, warehousing, shipment
- freightcargo, cargo ships, air freight, freight rates, bulk freight
- Maritime Shippingfreighter, shipping line, shipping container, vessel, shipping lane
- Panama CanalPanama Canal, canal locks, canal, lock gates, waterway
- shippingshipping, cargo ships, container ships, freight, package
- waterwaysriver, rivers, canal, canals, stream
shipping routeflight path
Planned aerial trajectory
air route · airway · trucking route · pipeline · caravan route
shipping routenaval blockade
Fleet sealing off ports
blockade · choke point · exclusion zone · no-go zone · chokepoint