Jurgen Freund / Timelapse from day to night looking over Tsing Yi container port, with cranes filling container ships, Hong Kong, China, 2017.

Jurgen Freund / Timelapse from day to night looking over Tsing Yi container port, with cranes filling container ships, Hong Kong, China, 2017.

Onne van der Wal / Tug escorting tanker out of the port of Charleston, towards the Ravenel Bridge, South Carolina, USA. All non-editorial uses must be cleared individually.

Juan Carlos Munoz / Cargo ship passing through the Panama Canal, Panama City, Panama, Central America. July 2012. All non-editorial uses must be cleared individually.

Juan Carlos Munoz / Container ship passing through the Panama Canal, Panama City, Panama, Central America. All non-editorial uses must be cleared individually.

Benoit Stichelbaut / Container ship, Loire estuary, Saint Nazaire, Loire-Atlantique, France. June 2005. All non-editorial uses must be cleared individually.

Jean E. Roche / Beaver (Castor fiber) on beach, Camargue, France, November.

Richard Du Toit / Aerial photograph of container ship near Cape Town Harbour, Atlantic Ocean, South Africa, Western Cape Province, March 2010

Franco Banfi,Franco Banfi / Anchor on Wreck Vassilios T, Vis Island, Croatia, Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean

Michael Pitts,Michael Pitts / Engine room ventilator shafts of oil tanker 'Seiko Maru'. Sunk in Chuuk Lagoon 17/18th February 1944, Chuuk Lagoon, Pacific

Denis-Huot / Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) playing in the waves of an oil tanker, Port Aransas, Texas, USA

Denis-Huot / Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) playing in the waves of an oil tanker, Port Aransas, Texas, USA

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Stevedore or dock worker smoking cigarette and carrying cargo on head to and from the boats, Sadarghat water front, Dhaka, Bangladesh June 2012. No release available.

Pedro Narra / Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) leaping in front of a cargo ship, Sado Estuary, Portugal, September

Benoit Stichelbaut / Workers cleaning beach of spilt oil from cargo boat "TK Bremen", beached by heavy winds. Erdeven, Brittany, France, December 16th 2011.

Benoit Stichelbaut / Cargo boat "TK Bremen" beached by heavy winds. Erdeven, Brittany, France, December 16th 2011.

Jurgen Freund / A barge full of logs. Illegal timber is brought into Sarawak from Kalimantan by both land and sea. Illegal logging in protected areas involves a complex network of people from all walks of life. The i...

Roberto Rinaldi / Wreck of crude oil super-tanker "Amoco Milford Haven", populated by shoals Swallowtail anthias (Anthias anthias) and Bogues (Boops boops). The tanker sank on April 14th, 1991 after three days of fire....

Roberto Rinaldi / Stern of crude oil super-tanker "Milford Haven", which sank on April 14th, 1991 after three days of fire. Genoa, Italy, 2007.

Piper Mackay / Container freighter travelling through the Panama canal, Panama, November 2008

Franco Banfi / Rudder of Teti wreck, built in 1883 as a steamship and later turned into a merchant cargo ship. Sunk on a stormy night on May 23rd/1930, it lies at max 34m close to Komiza, Vis Island, Croatia, Adriat...

David Fleetham / The 300 meter NYK Andromeda gearless container ship departing Long Beach Harbor, California, USA. August 2007.

Philippe Clement / Harbour cranes and container ship docked in the Antwerp harbour / port, Flanders, Belgium. December 2018

Laurie Hedges / Drone shot tracking over the Panama Canal at sunset, with freighter, Panama, 2019.

Stefan Christmann / Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) group dwarfed on sea ice by cargo ship. Atka Bay, Antarctica. February 2017.

Stefan Christmann / Mary Arctica cargo ship in Atka Bay with ice shelf and sea ice in foreground. Atka Bay, Antarctica. February 2017.

Nick Upton / Noble false widow spider (Steatoda nobilis) female, Britain's most poisonous spider which probably reached the UK in cargo ships from the Canary islands, hanging in her web in a garden wood shed,...

Nick Upton / Noble false widow spidow (Steatoda nobilis) female, Britain's most poisonous spider which probably reached the UK in cargo ships from the Canary islands, hanging in it web in a garden wood shed at...

Nick Upton / Noble false widow spider (Steatoda nobilis) female, Britain's most poisonous spider which probably reached the UK in cargo ships from the Canary islands, hanging in her web in a garden wood shed,...

Nick Upton / Noble false widow spider (Steatoda nobilis) female, Britain's most poisonous spider which probably reached the UK in cargo ships from the Canary islands, hanging in her web in a garden wood shed,...

Nick Upton / Noble false widow spider (Steatoda nobilis) female, Britain's most poisonous spider which probably reached the UK in cargo ships from the Canary islands, hanging in her web in a garden wood shed,...

Jurgen Freund / Timelapse of Vietnamese boats picking up cruiseship passengers in Halong Bay, Vietnam, 2016.

Mark Carwardine / Killer whale or orca (Orcinus orca) swimming near freight ship, Salish Sea, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Mark Carwardine / Killer whale or orca (Orcinus orca) lob tailing neqar freight ship, Salish Sea, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Richard Robinson / Pelagic Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus ) rides the bow of a Maersk container ship, Northern New Zealand Editorial use only.

Ashley Cooper / The Riverdance washed ashore off Blackpool, one of 3 ships lost that day off the UK. This ship was hit by a huge wave that shifted the vehicle cargo on the decks causing the ship to list violently. T...

Ashley Cooper / RAF 'Sea King' Helicopter preparing to drop salvage experts onto The Riverdance washed ashore off Blackpool. The Riverdance was one of 3 ships lost that day off the UK. The ship was hit by a huge wave...

Ashley Cooper / RAF 'Sea King' Helicopter preparing to drop salvage experts onto The Riverdance washed ashore off Blackpool. The Riverdance was one of 3 ships lost that day off the UK. The ship was hit by a huge wave...

Ashley Cooper / Coast guard looking at the 'Riverdance' washed ashore off Blackpool. The 'Riverdance' was one of 3 ships lost in one day off the coast of the UK. The ship was hit by a huge wave that shifted the vehi...

Philippe Clement / Two container ships / cargo vessels sailing at sunset, North Sea

Michel Roggo / Illulissat harbour with container ship, which brings goods twice a year. Ilulissat Icefjord UNESCO World Heritage Site, Greenland. August 2014. Photographed for The Freshwater Project

Michel Roggo / Ship on the main channel of the Danube river, the Bratul Sulina, at Crisan Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve, Romania, May 2014 . Photographed for The Freshwater Project

Rhonda Klevansky / Cargo boat in the Pacific Ocean, Chiloe, Chile, South America. January 2016.

Philippe Clement / Cargo ship in the North Sea, Europe. June 2010.

Philippe Clement / E-Crane, scrap crane loading recycled metal on cargo ship at Van Heyghen recycling export terminal, port of Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium, Europe. July 2013.

Tony Wu / Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) at surface with ship travelling in the shipping lane along the coast of Sri Lanka, Indian Ocean.

Tony Wu / Dead Blue whale (Balaenoptera musclus) probably killed by a ship strike from a large commercial ship, much like the one visible in the background. Sri Lanka, India.

Tony Wu / Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) swimming in commercial shipping lane off Sri Lanka; these ships are a danger to the whales. Indian Ocean.