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Trade & Shipping Routes
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The Asia–Europe Route via Suez
The main artery between Asian factories and European ports, through Malacca, the Red Sea, and the Suez Canal
The Cape of Good Hope Route
The long way around Africa between Asia and Europe, revived by the Red Sea crisis and the 2026 Iran war
The Grand Canal of China
The world's longest artificial waterway, linking Beijing with Hangzhou and the Yellow River with the Yangtze
The Maritime Silk Road
The monsoon sea lanes from China to India, Arabia, and East Africa, and the name of China's 21st-century port initiative
The Northern Sea Route
Russia's Arctic shortcut between Europe and East Asia, open for a few months a year behind nuclear icebreakers
The Northwest Passage
The ice-bound sea route through Canada's Arctic islands, a centuries-old dream and an unresolved legal question
The Silk Road
The overland web of caravan routes that linked China with Central Asia, Persia, and the Mediterranean for some 1,500 years
The Spice Route
The sea trade in pepper, cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon that drew Europe into Asia and remade the world map
The Trans-Pacific Shipping Lanes
The great-circle sea lanes between East Asia and North America, barometer of U.S.–China trade and tariffs
The Transatlantic Shipping Lanes
The oldest of the great ocean trades, linking Europe's ports with North America across the North Atlantic