1. Catering to the Roman taste for luxury, the flourishing seaborne trade supplied all kinds of merchandise.

2. The Canal handles something like 10% of seaborne trade, spanning everything from finished goods to oil, gas, and dry-bulk commodities

3. Chittagong, which handles nearly 90 percent of Bangladesh’s seaborne trade, handled nearly 3 million TEU in 2017, compared with its designed annual capacity of 1.7 million TEU

4. Capesizes are normally used for iron ore and coal, Cargoes that will represent about 2.7 billion tons of seaborne trade this year -- by far the biggest source of demand for non-oil commodity

5. Capesizes are normally used for iron ore and coal, Cargoes that will represent about 2.7 billion tons of seaborne trade this year — by far the biggest source of demand for non-oil commodity