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Global Trade Monitor

Shipping through the world’s chokepoints, activity at its busiest ports and the movements of the LNG fleet.

A working demonstration by Torus Solutions. Vessel traffic is simulated from a model of global sea lanes and port operations. The analytics are the same ones that run unchanged on a live AIS feed: chokepoint transits, port dwell and anchorage waits, and LNG fleet flows.

Freighters over the oceanic tracks and corridors, the pulse of the busiest cargo hubs and the lanes that carry the most tonnage.

A working demonstration by Torus Solutions. Air cargo traffic is simulated: fictional operators fly real freighter types between real airports, routed around closed airspace. Hub movements and corridor crossings are computed from the aircraft’s own position reports; lane tonnes are modelled estimates.

Vessels active
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On the map
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LNG carriers
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Messages per second
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Updated
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Airborne
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On the ground
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Departures 24 h
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Tonnes 24 h
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Chokepoints

Twelve straits and canals that carry most seaborne trade. Ships inside each passage now, completed transits, and whether the last day is out of line with the week before.

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The LNG fleet

Liquefied natural gas carriers, laden or returning in ballast as read from their reported draught.

Awaiting data.

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Busiest ports now

Ships at berth and waiting at anchor, with seven-day averages for time alongside and time waiting.

Awaiting data.

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Transit flows

Completed passages by ship type.

Awaiting data.

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Method

Simulated vessel traffic. The ships shown are fictional and do not represent real vessels; not for navigation or trading decisions.

This monitor is a demonstration. Its traffic comes from a model of global sea lanes and port operations: fictional ships sail real routes between real ports, pass through the chokepoints, wait at anchor, berth and sail again. Each ship reports its position, speed and type in the same form as the Automatic Identification System, and every figure here is computed from those reports alone, as it would be from a live feed. Positions are rounded to roughly a hundred metres, refreshed every five seconds, and shown without names or identifiers.

Transit and port figures count commercial ships only: container, bulk, tanker and gas carriers. A transit is a complete passage through the strait; a ship that turns back or calls at a port inside it is not counted. The disruption reading compares the last 24 hours with the same hours on each of the previous seven days, and stays in a baseline-building state until three or more full days are on record.

LNG carriers are classed laden or in ballast from their reported draught against the vessel’s deepest observed draught. Destinations are inferred, and may be wrong.

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Cargo hubs

The twenty busiest airports by movements in the last day, with aircraft on the ground and holding now. The pulse shows arrivals and departures hour by hour: express hubs swell twice a day as their sort banks arrive and leave.

Awaiting data.

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Corridors

Ten stretches of airspace that long-haul freight funnels through, with aircraft inside each now, completed crossings, and whether the last day is out of line with the week before.

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Lanes

Region-to-region lanes ranked by estimated tonnes delivered on completed trips.

Awaiting data.

Corridor crossings by aircraft class

Awaiting data.

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Method

Simulated air cargo traffic. The operators and aircraft shown are fictional and do not represent real flights; not for navigation or trading decisions.

This view is a demonstration. Its traffic comes from a model of the air cargo network: fictional operators fly real freighter types between real airports, express carriers through the night and day sort banks of their hubs, scheduled and charter freighters on long-haul rotations, with technical stops where range requires and routes that keep clear of closed airspace. Each aircraft reports its position, altitude, speed and track in the style of ADS-B, and every count here is computed from those reports alone. Aircraft are shown without names, operators or identifiers.

A movement is a departure or an arrival. Turnaround is the time from arrival at the stand to departure from it. A corridor crossing counts an aircraft that passes through a corridor along its length; a stop or a holding pattern inside it is not a crossing. The disruption reading compares the last 24 hours with the same hours on each of the previous seven days, and stays in a baseline-building state until three or more full days are on record.

Tonnes are estimates: each trip’s payload is modelled from its aircraft type and a typical load factor, and counted once, on arrival at its final destination.