- Shipping is so big in fact that it constitutes roughly 90 percent of the world's trade.
- Compared to the energy expended moving goods by plane or truck, shipping is far less damaging in terms of greenhouse gases released.
- A container ship travels the equivalent of three-quarters of the way to the moon and back in one year during its regular travel across the oceans.
- There are approximately 55,000 merchant ships carrying cargo around the world.
- As of this moment there are roughly 20 million containers crossing the world.
- Shipping is cheap. It’s so cheap in fact, that rather than fillet its own fish, Scotland can send its cod 10,000 miles across the ocean to China to be filleted, and then sent back for less than the price of doing it themselves.
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