M·01Tensile 485 MPa
Steel · COR-TEN A
The container itself. Forty feet of weathering steel, hauled across oceans on a payload-to-mass ratio engineered to the gram.
A Free Association
We aggregate logistics data from publicly available sources — vessel tracking, flight telemetry, customs disclosures, civic open data — and redistribute it openly to the association.
◍ logisticsdata.org
howthe worldmoves.
A free association indexing publicly available logistics data and offering it back, openly, to anyone who needs it.
Open SourceNon-CommercialPublic Data Only
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AIS — vessel positions◍ADS-B — flight tracks◍ACE — import bills of lading◍FMC — tariff & service filings◍ERA RINF — rail infrastructure◍STB — rail filings◍WCO — customs disclosures◍OpenStreetMap — geospatial◍CDP — emissions disclosures◍SEC EDGAR — corporate filings◍AIS — vessel positions◍ADS-B — flight tracks◍ACE — import bills of lading◍FMC — tariff & service filings◍ERA RINF — rail infrastructure◍STB — rail filings◍WCO — customs disclosures◍OpenStreetMap — geospatial◍CDP — emissions disclosures◍SEC EDGAR — corporate filings◍AIS — vessel positions◍ADS-B — flight tracks◍ACE — import bills of lading◍FMC — tariff & service filings◍ERA RINF — rail infrastructure◍STB — rail filings◍WCO — customs disclosures◍OpenStreetMap — geospatial◍CDP — emissions disclosures◍SEC EDGAR — corporate filings◍
Statement
Webelievedataonmovement—ofships,freight,food,parts,fuel—belongstothepeoplewholivedownstreamofit.Wecollectitfromwhereitisalreadypublic.Wecleanit.Wehanditback,freely,informatsmadeforreading,notforreselling.
An interaction · No. 03
The supply chain, heard.
+ 01+ 02+ 03+ 04LOGISTICSDATA · NETWORK SCOPE
01 · SEA · AIS9 NODES
02 · RAIL · RINF7 NODES
03 · ROAD · OSM12 NODES
04 · AIR · ADS-B6 NODES
05 · LAST MILE · GTFS14 NODES
LON 0.00°·LAT 0.00°·FLOW OFF
Five lanes — sea, rail, road, air, last mile. Cursor drives flow and tone. Move slowly.
Materials & Engineering
The supply chain, in samples.
M·02Density 991 kg/m³
Bunker Fuel · IFO 380
Heavy fuel oil — the residue at the bottom of the barrel — that pushes 90% of trade across water at $0.003 per ton-mile.
M·03f_ck 45 N/mm²
Reinforced Concrete · C45/55
Quay walls, terminal slabs, and the buried plinths beneath every gantry crane. The least-photographed material of trade.
M·048-bit ASCII over X.400
UNB+UNOA:1+EXPORTER+CARRIER+260513:1142+1' UNH+1+IFTMIN:D:16B:UN' BGM+610+BL10293+9' TDT+20+0042S++1+++MAERSK SEALAND' LOC+9+SGSIN' LOC+11+NLRTM' EQD+CN+MSCU2901832+45G1+++5' CNT+7:24380:KGM' UNT+7+1' UNZ+1+1'
EDI · UN/EDIFACT D.16B
Forty-year-old text protocol still encoding the world's bills of lading. Brittle, beautiful, and almost entirely undocumented in public.
Coda
Materials are politics.
We just chose to publish them.