For World Maritime Day, a ship docked at night in the Port of Cape Town, South Africa
© Zero Creatives/Science Photo Librar
Connecting to the sea. High seas commerce
Unless you work in shipping, most of us don’t think about how much global shipping affects our daily lives. Most of the consumer goods you buy travelled across an ocean on a massive container ship. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) estimates that 80 percent of global trade relies on ships. The IMO created World Maritime Day to call attention to the hard work they do finding the most efficient and safest shipping routes around the globe, making their work, and our lives, easier.
Related Images
Sailors begin their journey from Chicago to Mackinac Island, Michigan during the Race to Mackinac
The shoreline of Cahuita National Park, in Costa Rica
Painted bollards by Jan Mitchell along the Geelong waterfront precinct
Sunset over The Carousel Pavilion with Christmas tree, Geelong
Remains of Mulberry Harbour from the D-Day invasion, Arromanches les Bains, Normandy, France
Salcombe Harbour on the south coast of Devon, England
Aerial view of central Oxford, England
The Cutty Sark in Greenwich, London, England for her 150th anniversary
Bing Today Images
French River, Ontario, Canada
Sep 27, 2023
Thorn bug, Pico Bonito National Park, Honduras
Sep 27, 2021
Clouds over Mont Ventoux, France
Sep 27, 2016
