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World Bank Global Shipping Traffic Density

Global ~0.005-degree grid cells (about 500m at the Equator) counting AIS positions reported between January 2015 and February 2021. The zip files (Global layer 510.1 MB) were last updated May 3, 2021 and are a static historical aggregate with no live updates.

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Signal Scoredraft model
83
Access
No key · none
20
Licence clarity
CC-BY-4.0 · terms linked
20
Evidence
1 source link checked
6
Freshness
verified 2026-11-05
20
Documentation
docs · limits · coverage · attribution
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Access
none
Free tier
Free public download of six global raster layers (Commercial, Fishing, Oil & Gas, Passenger, Leisure, Global); no account.
Rate limits
Not stated
Licence
CC-BY-4.0terms
Licence note
The World Bank dataset page states "License : Creative Commons Attribution 4.0" and that the data was obtained through a partnership with IMF's World Seaborne Trade Monitoring System (Cerdeiro, Komaromi, Liu and Saeed, 2020), classified Public. Signal Lab links to the dataset page and asks users to credit World Bank / IMF per CC BY 4.0 rather than re-hosting the raster zips.
Attribution
Credit World Bank / IMF World Seaborne Trade Monitoring System per CC BY 4.0.

// Evidence · verified 2026-11-05

  1. 01datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0037580/Global-Shipping-Traffic-Density

// Good for

osintmaritimeaisshipping-densityworld-bank

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