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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Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
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Who created the Easter Bunny?
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Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch on the institution s 175th anniversary
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Happy New Year!
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Sanxiantai Dragon Bridge in Taitung, Taiwan
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Happy St. Patricks Day!
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National Park Week: Guadalupe Mountains National Park
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Goats don t grow on trees
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Celebrating all things Austen
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East River crossing
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Celebrating the Day of the Dead
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Terraced rice fields, Yuanyang County, China
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Sunburst at Angkor
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Gazing upon Portraits of Change
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Galeries Lafayette, Paris
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Agüero, Huesca province, Spain
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Badlands National Park turns 44
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Every day is Napping Day for this screech owl
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The artists come to Venice
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The tortoise and the finch
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Spring blooms in the Netherlands
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Milford Sound/Piopiotahi rainforest in New Zealand
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Spring comes to the Palouse
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Venice Skatepark, Los Angeles, California
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Seitan Limania Beach, Crete
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The lights of Paris
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Too awesome to be a planet
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National Park Week continues
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Celebrating whales—and a whale of a tale
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The Battle of the Bulge 75 years later
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