Global trafficking streams

Getting Ahead of the Problem

The global shipping routes are constantly monitored, frequently documented, and reasonably well understood.  Over $2 trillion in global goods and services make up the illicit economy, much of it moving in a financial sense across the dark net and in a physical sense on global trafficking streams operated by illicit actors.  In terms of size, location, and timing of the routes, there are many estimates produced from the world’s security professionals, including the military intelligence services.  A visual portrayal of just the illegal narcotic trade (cocaine, heroin, and so forth) reveals a global spider’s web of nets.  Worst of all, they are constantly shifting and creatively executed by master logistic organizations – the drug cartels.