Unless you work in shipping, you may not think about how much global shipping affects our daily lives. Most of the consumer goods we buy traveled across oceans on massive container ships. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) estimates that as much as 90 percent of global trade relies on ships. The IMO created World Maritime Day to call attention to the hard work mariners do finding the most efficient and safest shipping routes around the globe.
High seas commerce
Today in History
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Celebrating the first day of spring
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A march toward a dream
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Welcome to the drainpipe of the Pacific
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Bournemouth beach huts
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The Hermitage of Santa Justa
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Camels in the desert, United Arab Emirates
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River otters at Acadia National Park, Maine
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Corjuem Fort in Goa, India
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Reflections of the night sky
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Social climbing
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Replica of a Viking home in Dublin National Botanic Gardens, Ireland
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Mandarin duck, Richmond Park, London, England
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Monarch butterflies migrate south
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Astronomy Day
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Festivus
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Till the cows come home
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Ready, set, read
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Aurora borealis
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Cousins Day
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Fat Bear Week
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Eben Ice Caves, Upper Peninsula, Michigan
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75 years of the United Nations
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Happy Mother s Day
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Happy New Year!
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FOR FOREST by Klaus Littmann
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The perfect canvas for an ancient text
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Deep in the North Woods wetlands
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Poinsettia Day
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A history of Vinland
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Astrotourism at its finest