Ports with the highest immediate connectivity to our seven target ports in the US Gulf States.

Since nearly all maritime arrivals in the Gulf passed most recently through ports on the Atlantic seaboard, in the Caribbean, or in other ports on the Gulf of Mexico, all of which host populations of both Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus, mosquito populations from these ports must reasonably be assumed to be the most likely to arrive in target ports. Data represents arrivals by fully cellular container ships from January 1st to December 31st, 2012.