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.

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

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...

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

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.

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.

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

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

Kirkendall-Spring / Freighter ship anchored, Elliot Bay, with the city of Seattle in the background. Washington, USA, February 2015.

Fred Olivier / Container ship passing through a fjord, Patagonia, Chile.

Brent Stephenson / Oil slick and sheen on the sea surface around a service vessel, two days after the container ship MV Rena became grounded on Astrolabe Reef, off of the Port of Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, Oc...

Brent Stephenson / Container ship, MV Rena, approximately 14 hours after becoming grounded on Astrolabe Reef, off of the Port of Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, October 2011.

Brent Stephenson / Aerial view of the container ship, MV Rena, approximately 14 hours after becoming grounded on Astrolabe Reef, off of the Port of Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, October 2011.

Juan Carlos Munoz / Container ship passing through the Panama Canal in the rain, Panama City, Panama, Central America. 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.

Jaime Rojo / Container ship 'E.R. Cannes', passing through the Strait of Gibraltar, El Estrecho Natural Park, Spain. All non-editorial uses must be cleared individually.

Jaime Rojo / Container ship 'E.R. Cannes', passing through the Strait of Gibraltar, El Estrecho Natural Park, Spain. All non-editorial uses must be cleared individually.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Container ship sailing through the Panama Canal. All non-editorial uses must be cleared individually.

Angelo Giampiccolo / Loading of cargo ships, at Marsaxlokk, Malta. September 2011. All non-editorial uses must be cleared individually.

Michael Pitts / Inter Island container ship, aground and wrecked, Yonaguni Island, East China Sea, Japan. February 2014.

Michael Pitts / Inter Island container ship, aground and wrecked, Yonaguni Island, East China Sea, Japan. February 2014.

Mark MacEwen / Various boats coming in to harbour at Gibraltar, June 2013.

Philippe Clement / Dock crane and heap of scrap metal for recycling, with cargo boat moored alongside, Port of Ghent, Belgium, July 2013.

Loic Poidevin / Container Ships, Prince Rupert Harbour, British Columbia, Canada, June 2013.

Loic Poidevin / View of the container ship AS Valdivia in Prince Ruppert Harbour, used to ship grain and coal from Canada to China, British Columbia, Canada, June 2013.

Gary K. Smith / Softwood coniferous timber ready for transport to mainland, Isle of Mull, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, UK, May 2013.

Jean E. Roche / Tanker waiting to enter Marseille harbour, France, November 2012.

Richard Du Toit / Aerial photograph of Durban Harbour breakwater with freighter boat entering the harbour, KwaZulu-Natal Province,South Africa, May 2010

Richard Du Toit / Aerial photograph of container ship with Cape Town in the distance, Atlantic Ocean, South Africa, Western Cape Province, March 2010

Onne van der Wal / Pilot boat guiding large ship into Narragansett Bay from the rough waters beyond the entrance, Rhode Island, USA, October 2006.

Onne van der Wal / Dockwise Yacht Transport Ship 'Super Servant 3' loaded with yachts to transport up the coast to New England. Martinique, Caribbean, April 2007.

Onne van der Wal / Dockwise Yacht Transport Ship, 'Super Servant 3' anchored in Martinique awaiting a load of yachts to transport up the coast to New England. Martinique, Caribbean, April 2007.