The shipping journal Lloyd’s List has long offered a comprehensive overview of commercial maritime traffic between ports, with data stretching back as far as 1692. Another source of information is historical ship logs – records that reveal further details about the exact routes that vessels traversed, as well as prevailing winds and other weather patterns.
This is a longer form explainer film created for the research-based investment management company Winton. The tracking of shipping routes is an oft-cited achievement of modern data science. But comparable data has been collected for centuries.
Art Direction and design by me, animation by Tom Maples, and produced by Breakfast of Champions.
