Merchants on route in RL

[SeaQueen]

My sense of things is that if you averaged together all the shipping of the world, they'd probably end up tracing out some approximation of the great-circle routes between major ports around the world.

And then, as was mentioned before, there's specific chanels in places like the Straits of Gibraltar, the Strait of Hormuz, etc.

Originally Posted by Rosencrantz

Hello!


I would like to know, how precise RL merchants usually follow their planned route nowadays, in open sea? Or opposite, what is the distance you could think the ship is "off route"?
Anyone?


-RC-