I would like to have this information at least for 2013, regard movement of ships between different countries ports in order to estimate potential people movement from high endemic Ebola countries and countries in Latin America, as part of the assesment of movement of people from there to Latin America.
There is a yearly Drewry Shiping Consultant Report that you might find some useful information http://www.drewry.co.uk
- you can find such information also in the ports' throughput reports where they show such data
Lloyds List's Seasearcher service. It is not the most reliable, but along with Drewry it is the most reliable out there. In the past I have used it to develop transit time distributions for ocean container liner service between various port pairs. From my experience (about 6 years ago now), there are many holes in multiple data service
http://www.lloydslistintelligence.com/llint/login.htm
Some people have already mapped the global shipping network in order to explain the potential spread of marine invasions, see: http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/01/19/rsif.2009.0495.full
they use Sea-Web for AIS data.
for information, have a look at our project trying to map historical ship movements globally: www.world-seastems.cnrs.fr
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Lloydes List is one, Drewry another. AIS data is also possible as several people have explained. Perhaps the most important choke points to explore would be Gibraltar, Suez and the Bosphorous and in Asia the Straits of Malacca. In the Americas the Panama canal. Following these flows might provide answers. Lastly several Satellite communications services providers like Inmarsat and Iridium produce maps of ship tragffic intensities as do some of the people mapping carbon emissions.
Beyond flows, I am interested in number of crew and people traveling in those ships, particularly coming from Africa.
For the period 15th-19th century, you might be interested in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database: http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces
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