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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Notre-Dame Cathedral reopens
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Brown-throated three-toed sloth in cecropia tree, Costa Rica
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A crested partridge
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Abbey Gardens in Bury St Edmunds, England
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Thorrablot: The Icelandic midwinter festival
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Corjuem Fort in Goa, India
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Celebrating sea otters
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Pollinators: not to be sneezed at
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Hitsujiyama Park, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
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Light show at the skatepark
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Pi Day
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Let’s go mothing
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Bandon Beach in Bandon, Oregon
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Groundhog Day
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Great Backyard Bird Count
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World Environment Day
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Veterans Day
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Things are looking up
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Góða ólavsøku, from the Faroes!
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Ludwig’s palace
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Füzér Castle in the Zemplén Mountains, Hungary
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The Tour de France begins
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European river otter, Netherlands
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Horse Head Rock, New South Wales, Australia
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The monsoon arrives in the desert
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In Texas, even the riverbend is big
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Where can you find a red fox?
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Salzburg, Austria
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A polar bear near Churchill, Manitoba, Canada
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International Jazz Day
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