the.com/global commerce
the planet doing business with itself, one container ship at a time.
means the exchange of goods, services, and money across national borders, powered by trade routes, currency markets, and a truly staggering amount of shipping containers.
from traces back to the silk road, when merchants moved spices and textiles across continents on camelback; industrialization and the internet just swapped the camels for cargo ships and fiber optic cables.
container standardone metal box size unified all global shipping in 1956
daily volumetrillions of dollars cross borders every single day
choke pointsa few narrow straits can stall the entire world economy