Empty Ships: not a green shoot
In: Global Economy| Maps
21 May 2009Foreign Policy has an article on how VesselTracker.com uses Google Earth to literally show the stalled world economy in the form of ships sitting idle off the shore of Singapore.
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May 25th, 2009 at 7:41 am
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