Hi, I'm performing some research on shipping routes, and was wondering
if anyone could help? I was wondering what kind of routes, with
examples of lat,long coordinates a ship would follow it is was
following a "normal" route from Mobile, Al. to Liverpool?

With best wishes
Paul

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Hi, I'm performing some research on shipping routes, and was wondering
if anyone could help? I was wondering what kind of routes, with
examples of lat,long coordinates a ship would follow it is was
following a "normal" route from Mobile, Al. to Liverpool?

Search engines your friend. A quick search revealed this:

http://sntg.com/solutions/routes/map/routes_v3.swf

A good start.

On 18 Sep, 15:21, Paul Cassel
wrote:
wrote:
Hi, I'm performing some research on shipping routes, and was wondering
if anyone could help? I was wondering what kind of routes, with
examples of lat,long coordinates a ship would follow it is was
following a "normal" route from Mobile, Al. to Liverpool?

Search engines your friend. A quick search revealed this:

http://sntg.com/solutions/routes/map/routes_v3.swf

A good start.

Thanks!
It does present a bit of a mystery- how can such a ship, eastbound,
wind up in the vicinity of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland?

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On 18 Sep, 15:21, Paul Cassel
wrote:
wrote:
Hi, I'm performing some research on shipping routes, and was wondering
if anyone could help? I was wondering what kind of routes, with
examples of lat,long coordinates a ship would follow it is was
following a "normal" route from Mobile, Al. to Liverpool?

Search engines your friend. A quick search revealed this:

http://sntg.com/solutions/routes/map/routes_v3.swf

A good start.

Thanks!
It does present a bit of a mystery- how can such a ship, eastbound,
wind up in the vicinity of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland?


Once answer.....weather routing

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On 18 Sep, 15:21, Paul Cassel
wrote:
wrote:
Hi, I'm performing some research on shipping routes, and was wondering
if anyone could help? I was wondering what kind of routes, with
examples of lat,long coordinates a ship would follow it is was
following a "normal" route from Mobile, Al. to Liverpool?

Search engines your friend. A quick search revealed this:

http://sntg.com/solutions/routes/map/routes_v3.swf

A good start.

Thanks!
It does present a bit of a mystery- how can such a ship, eastbound,
wind up in the vicinity of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland?


Once answer.....weather routing

or..how about 'great circle' routing? If you have a globe at home...streach
a string between the two points and you might be surprised where the path
covers.

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:54:19 -0300, "Don White"
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On 18 Sep, 15:21, Paul Cassel
wrote:
wrote:
Hi, I'm performing some research on shipping routes, and was wondering
if anyone could help? I was wondering what kind of routes, with
examples of lat,long coordinates a ship would follow it is was
following a "normal" route from Mobile, Al. to Liverpool?

Search engines your friend. A quick search revealed this:

http://sntg.com/solutions/routes/map/routes_v3.swf

A good start.

Thanks!
It does present a bit of a mystery- how can such a ship, eastbound,
wind up in the vicinity of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland?


Once answer.....weather routing

or..how about 'great circle' routing? If you have a globe at home...streach
a string between the two points and you might be surprised where the path
covers.

It surprises some to find if travel east from Chicago on the latitude
line the first foreign city you hit is Buffalo, NY. The second is
Rome, IT. But some people are surprised that you go east.

--Vic

On 18 Sep, 16:18, otnmbrd wrote:
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On 18 Sep, 15:21, Paul Cassel
wrote:
wrote:
Hi, I'm performing some research on shipping routes, and was wondering
if anyone could help? I was wondering what kind of routes, with
examples of lat,long coordinates a ship would follow it is was
following a "normal" route from Mobile, Al. to Liverpool?

Search engines your friend. A quick search revealed this:

http://sntg.com/solutions/routes/map/routes_v3.swf

A good start.

Thanks!
It does present a bit of a mystery- how can such a ship, eastbound,
wind up in the vicinity of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland?

Once answer.....weather routing

I think they would be aiming to head south owing to heavy ice warnings
at the time off Newfoundland.

wrote:
Hi, I'm performing some research on shipping routes, and was wondering
if anyone could help? I was wondering what kind of routes, with
examples of lat,long coordinates a ship would follow it is was
following a "normal" route from Mobile, Al. to Liverpool?

With best wishes
Paul


There is no such thing as "Shipping Routes". Modern weather routing
for big ships mean that you'll find them all over the ocean as ships
avoid weather systems, or hitch on to ones with following winds.
Ships leaving from the same port 2 days apart will follow quite
different routes due to this reason.

Generally a great circle route is a good starting point.

Evan Gatehouse

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:57:26 GMT, Evan Gatehouse
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There is no such thing as "Shipping Routes". Modern weather routing
for big ships mean that you'll find them all over the ocean as ships
avoid weather systems, or hitch on to ones with following winds.
Ships leaving from the same port 2 days apart will follow quite
different routes due to this reason.

Interesting, definitely makes sense when you think about it.

Wayne.B wrote in
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On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:57:26 GMT, Evan Gatehouse
wrote:

There is no such thing as "Shipping Routes". Modern weather routing
for big ships mean that you'll find them all over the ocean as ships
avoid weather systems, or hitch on to ones with following winds.
Ships leaving from the same port 2 days apart will follow quite
different routes due to this reason.

Interesting, definitely makes sense when you think about it.


......And I disagree. There are many "normal" routes that ships will tend to
follow. Weather routing will on it's own create different routes, based on
the "basic" route.
In many cases for many reasons (weather be damned) ships will follow a
specific route with minor variations which may have more to do with the
particular Captain and/or vessel than anything else