Using NOAA’s “[Marine Cadastre](https://hub.marinecadastre.gov/pages/vesseltraffic?ref=beautifulpublicdata.com)” tool, you can download 16 years’ worth of detailed daily ship movements (filtered to the minute), in addition to “transit count” maps generated from a year’s worth of data to show each ship’s accumulated paths.
I downloaded all of 2023’s transit count maps and loaded them up in QGIS to visualize this year of marine traffic.
I removed the landmasses from the map and left only the ship traces.
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Using NOAA’s “[Marine Cadastre](https://hub.marinecadastre.gov/pages/vesseltraffic?ref=beautifulpublicdata.com)” tool, you can download 16 years’ worth of detailed daily ship movements (filtered to the minute), in addition to “transit count” maps generated from a year’s worth of data to show each ship’s accumulated paths.
I downloaded all of 2023’s transit count maps and loaded them up in QGIS to visualize this year of marine traffic.
I removed the landmasses from the map and left only the ship traces.