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Air Transportation

 

1955

2003

PEOPLE
(billion passenger km)
61 2,992
FREIGHT
(billion ton km)
0.7 99

Source: Vital Signs 2003, Worldwatch Institute

Source: Lloyd's Register of Shipping "World Fleet Statistics"

Shipping

  1953 2003
Number of Ships 31,797 89,960
Total Freight (000 Gt) 93,352 633,321

 

World Shipping and Air Transportation Study 1953-2003
22" diameter x 3" (freestanding)
found metal and glass
Brent Bukowski 2005

Wilhelm Nassau photo