Cool! FlightAware for boat traffic.
Live ships map
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#12There are a lot of tankers sitting off the coasts. I wonder if they are holding oil that was delivered to speculators, awaiting sale?
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#13There are a lot of tankers sitting off the coasts. I wonder if they are holding oil that was delivered to speculators, awaiting sale?
Here is a basic summary of the economic sense behind floating storage:
http://oil-price.net/en/articles/the-case-for-floating-oil-s...
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#14For those that are not aware, this is crowd sourced aggregation of data received by AIS (Automatic Identification System) VHF receivers which are hosted by volunteers who put up a receiver, antenna, and send the data received from the ships to this site.
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#15And now i want some crewmen wi' long beards an' a frigate...
ARRRRL
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#16There are a lot of tankers sitting off the coasts. I wonder if they are holding oil that was delivered to speculators, awaiting sale?
Some places have things like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Offshore_Oil_Port that means the tanker doesn't have to come to a traditional port.
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#17Wow. Notice the complete lack of anything around North Korea.
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#18Wow. Notice the complete lack of anything around North Korea.
No AIS radio volunteers there :P
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#19I live near the "oil capital of Europe" (I hate that name too), so there's quite a lot of ships floating around nearby. Very cool.
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#20Wow. Notice the complete lack of anything around North Korea.
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