The world’s busiest shipping lanes
More or Less: Behind the Stats
English - November 23, 2019 19:00 - 9 minutes - 8.56 MB - ★★★★★ - 740 ratingsNews Education Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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A listener wrote in asking which is the busiest shipping lane in the world. Ruth Alexander tries to find out with sea traffic analyst and former captain, Amrit Singh and Jean Tournadre, a researcher that uses satellite date to ships.
Producer: Darin Graham
Editor: Richard Vadon
Image: Freighter ships in Thessaloniki, Greece
Credit: Getty Images