The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Shipping’s super-sized safety secret

摘要

IT used to be that shipping complained of sea blindness - out of sight out mind and nobody thinks about how their goods actually get to them, far less the intricate global supply chain that relies of billions of tonnes of steel steaming through the world’s oceans. Well, everyone is paying attention now and all eyes are on the rather inelegant sight of a giant containership wedged across the Suez Canal, blocking the 13% of global trade that would usually be transiting one of the most important highways of global trade.