Marginal Advice
Marginal Advice
Jordan M, Alex G
The Traffic Jam That Cost $60 Billion; Inside the Shipping Industry | Marginal Advice Podcast Ep. 4
1 hour 6 minutes Posted Nov 7, 2022 at 7:25 am.
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Egyptian curses, live physics demonstrations, shipping containers; we've got a boatload of content for ya today.

We take a peek into the world's largest movement of goods that people barely think about. Boats. BIG boats. Container shipping has revolutionized the way we transport items around the world, and boats as big as skyscrapers help us make bananas from four timezones away cheaper than an apple down the street. We also discuss an event from last year that brought people's attention to this hidden global industry — the Ever Given's 2021 Week of Stuck in the Suez Canal. How did it happen? Why did it happen? What was it carrying? Find out on this week's episode of you get it.