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.

Juergen 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 / Scuba diver exploring stern of the Brioni steam passenger / cargo ship, sunk in February 1930 on the south eastern coast of Vis Island, Croatia, Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean. July, 2020.

Philip Stephen / Supply vessel ' Rem Mistral' offloading cargo at 'Forties Echo', North Sea. August 2020.

Fred Olivier / Jet barge used to transport the cargo to Casey station form the resupply ship, Antarctica. December 2010

Fred Olivier / Aurora Australis Resupply vessel moored in fast ice in front of Davis station, cargo is being discharged by ice road. Two CASA planes parked next to the ship, Antarctica November 2005

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

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.

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

Pascal Kobeh / A diver above a tank laying on the deck of the wreck of the Nippo Maru, a cargo ship used as a naval auxiliary, Chuuk or Truk Lagoon, Carolines Islands, Pacific Ocean

Pascal Kobeh / A diver above the cannon gun at the bow of the the wreck of the San Francisco Maru, a passenger cargo used as a auxiliary transport vessel, Chuuk or Truk Lagoon, Carolines Islands, Pacific Ocean

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

Rhonda Klevansky / Quelat Ferry at Puerto Gaviota transports cargo and passengers between Puerto Chacabuco and Chiloe island. Chilean fjords, Chile, South America. February 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.