Project

Port to Port
Using D3 as an interactive web platform we designed a map interface that is scaled globally while embedded with local stories about energy movement from port to port.

GPS pings from oil and other energy carrying vessels

U.S. ports in the last six years

Total volume traded, 2006-2013 (millions of metric tons)

A visual exploration of energy shipping routes around the world.

90% of all goods worldwide are moved by ship, but shipping is mostly invisible. More than 300 million Metric Tons of energy are shipped in and out of the United States each year, in 60,000 shipments.

This project presents the ports and paths of the 2.7 billion Metric Tons of energy shipped through more than 90 US ports from 2002 - 2012.

Using data assembled by Thomson Reuters, Port to Port maps global oil shipping routes as well as other forms of energy navigating ocean territories to and from the United States.

Energy shipping routes of all volumes

Using D3 as an interactive web platform we designed a map interface that is scaled globally while embedded with local stories about energy movement from port to port. Data can be viewed across time, which reveal changes in patterns of movement as the geopolitics, price of oil, and conditions at specific ports change.

In collaboration with Thomson Reuters Research Unit.

U.S. and foreign ports by amount of imports.

Explore this project here.

Project Team

Name	Project Role
Laura Kurgan	Project Director
Contact Laura Kurgan Laura Kurgan is a Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, where she directs the Center for Spatial Research, the Master's in Science in Computational Design Practices, and the Visual Studies curriculum.
Juan Francisco Saldarriaga	Data Visualization
Contact Juan Francisco Saldarriaga Juan Francisco Saldarriaga is a Mellon Research Scholar at the Center for Spatial Research and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. His research happens at the intersection of data, GIS, urbanism, architecture and the humanities and he teaches graduate level seminars on mapping, advanced GIS and data visualization.
Annelie Berner	D3 Programming
Contact Annelie Berner Research Associate from 2013-2014
Dare Brawley	Research Associate
Contact Dare Brawley Dare Brawley is assistant director of the Center for Spatial Research. Her work focuses on the interactions of technology, urban governance, and spatial politics using methods from critical urban studies and geographic information systems.