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Here's a figure showing the density of sea shipping routes:

https://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch1en/appl1en/mariti...

Immense swaths of the sea just aren't visited.

>You could pay them to deviate from their optimal course in a systematic way so as to cover more ocean with each voyage.

The financial pressure for punctual shipments is possibly far too great to consider route deviations, especially if they mean longer times at sea.



The only place that map showed with no traffic was sound of the horn of Africa, and the arctic. Between those latitudes there is traffic everywhere even if some is more sparse. You don't need to deviate far, increasing a long route by 5 percent can give a large lateral displacement. Remember, I said to pay them to do this too. Timely shipments are nice, but not always a priority.




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