Abstract
The Mediterranean Sea is the largest sea in the world and its most important sub-divisions regarding maritime traffic are the Ionian Sea, Tyrrhenian Sea, Ligurian Sea, Balearic Sea, Alboran Sea, Aegean Sea and the Adriatic Sea.
 This paper analyses how marine traffic has evolved in this area over the centuries, considering the historical traffic corridors (such as the Adriatic-Ionian Transport Corridor), the climate, the different sea-level rise due to climate change, and the wave heights and its period.
 Water circulation on Mediterranean is affected on a short time scale due to weather changes, and especially due to changes in salinity and temperature that could make the sea more stratified by the end of the 21st cen-tury.
 Regarding the complex meteorological factors, the high number of islands, islets, narrow passages, canals and submerged rocks in the waters, Mediterranean Sea remains one of the most important shipping routes with significant tanker traffic and unfortunately one of the areas with higher risk of maritime accidents, 75% of the shipping accidents being recorded in Aegean Sea.
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