What are the main routes in the Atlantic Ocean?

The following are the five main Atlantic routes: 1. The North Atlantic route connecting Europe and North America.

2. The Far East route connecting Europe, Asia and Oceania.

3. The mid-Atlantic route connecting Europe, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean.

4. South Atlantic route connecting Europe and South America.

5. The route from Europe to Cape Town along the Atlantic coast of Africa.

The North Atlantic route is the busiest route in the world, because more than13 of the merchant ships in the world sail on this route. The main goods transported by sea are petroleum and petroleum products, followed by iron ore, grain, coal, bauxite and alumina. The main coastal ports are Gdansk, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp, London, Liverpool, le havre, Marseille, Genoa, Trieste, constanta and Odessa. Alexandria, Darbeda (Casablanca), Monrovia, Halcott Port and Cape Town in Africa; New york, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Tampa, New Orleans and Houston in North America; Maracaibo, Tubaran, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires in South America. Among them, the most famous Rotterdam seaport is the largest seaport in the world, with an annual maximum throughput of 300 million tons.

In 1970s, the North Atlantic connected submarine cables with a total length of 200,000 kilometers, of which 16 was the submarine cable connecting Western Europe and North America. In addition, the sky over the Atlantic Ocean is also a traffic artery connecting Western Europe, North America, South America and Africa.