Transport & Internet
Transport & Internet is a data page on the Global Intelligence desk of Glassbox Auditing. Live ship traffic, trade lanes, chokepoints, ports, cargo hubs, airspace, undersea cables and internet health on one map, with vessel counts at each passage. Most traded goods travel by sea and most international data by undersea cable, so a blocked strait or a cut cable delays cargo and slows connections far from where it happens.
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What is on this page today?
- Internet disruptions: 3 in 24 hours, 73% below the 30-day norm — 30-day average 11 a day (IODA (Georgia Tech), 8 Nov 2026)
- Netherlands: internet connectivity fell 96% below normal in the last 7 days, +3.2 pts since 1 Nov (IODA (Georgia Tech), 8 Nov 2026)
- Burkina Faso: internet connectivity fell 90% below normal in the last 7 days (IODA (Georgia Tech), 8 Nov 2026)
- British Virgin Islands: internet connectivity fell 82% below normal in the last 7 days (IODA (Georgia Tech), 8 Nov 2026)
- Countries with an internet disruption in the last 7 days: 25, unchanged on a day earlier — 25 countries; deepest: Netherlands 96% below normal (IODA (Georgia Tech), 8 Nov 2026)
- Ships broadcasting AIS positions in 30 minutes: 27,591, +475 on a day earlier — what the free receivers pick up, not every ship at sea (Ships' AIS broadcasts, 8 Nov 2026)
Where does the data come from?
Items on this page come from IODA (Georgia Tech); Ships' AIS broadcasts. Each item links to its own source. All sources, how items are checked.
What does this page lead to?
- Business Activity (Macro): Ship arrivals at U.S. ports come ahead of the Census Bureau's monthly import figures, since goods are counted as imports when they clear customs. (moves the same way; weeks; economy scale) Source: U.S. Census Bureau International Trade (goods exports and imports by partner and state).
- Trade Exposure (Companies): Companies that rely on goods shipped from Asia pay more and wait longer when ships queue at ports or detour around a blocked passage, adding to the import costs Trade Exposure weighs. (moves the same way; weeks; sector scale) Source: UN Comtrade (U.S. Census trade data).
- Service Outages (Companies): Undersea cable cuts slow or cut internet traffic to whole regions, as the 2024 Red Sea cuts did between Asia, the Gulf and Europe, and can show as degraded service at providers routing through them. (moves the same way; same day; sector scale) Source: OutageDeck public API (cloud and SaaS provider status, normalized from official status pages).
- Company (Companies): Cargo landed at FedEx's Memphis and UPS's Louisville hubs is a read on parcel volumes, the main driver of both carriers' revenue. (moves the same way; the next quarterly report; company scale) Source: FAA, all-cargo airports: landed weight of cargo aircraft by airport.
- Economies & Debt (World Powers): Egypt earns billions of dollars a year in Suez Canal tolls; they fell by more than half in 2024 as ships avoided the Red Sea, a loss to its foreign-currency income. (moves the same way; months; global scale) Source: IMF PortWatch, daily chokepoint transits (satellite AIS).
What feeds this page?
- Conflict Zones (Global Intelligence): Attacks on ships from late 2023 kept most container lines out of the Red Sea, cutting vessel counts at Bab el-Mandeb, and in 2024 a stricken ship's dragged anchor is thought to have cut three cables there. (moves the other way; days; global scale) Source: IMF PortWatch, daily chokepoint transits (satellite AIS).