@SelmaBouvier - All doom and gloom but I did have a look at the " no cargo ships on the North Atlantic" -- the gaps in the map have always been there due to reporting issues and the same goes for the South Pacific and other seas. Usually one can find no cruise ships between Sydney and Fiji because of the same, and yet we know there are plenty.
Anyway the article is wrong about little or no ships between Europe and Nth. America - this site gives a fairly accurate picture of cargo ship movements and there are hundreds of them in the circle - just got to click on each vessel to see what it's up to and about 70% are plying their trade between Europe and Nth. America..
