Key insights from
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
By Rose George
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9 minute read
Published Sep 9, 2014
What you'll learn
From cat food to airbags to T-shirts and bananas, the vast majority of goods we buy, eat, wear, and regularly use sailed across far-flung oceans and seas before ending up in our living rooms and kitchens. For the most part, the shipping business sails under the radar, but this out-of-sight industry arguably underpins the global economic order.
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 The shipping industry touches just about every facet of our daily lives.
- 2 Globalization would not have been possible without advances in the shipping industry.
- 3 The Danish company Maersk exemplifies the strange paradox of a large-scale industry existing in relative obscurity.
- 4 Life on board a cargo ship can be a grind.
- 5 The ability to fly flags of convenience has been a boon for nation-states and shipping companies, but has created challenges for workers.
- 6 The little press the shipping industry gets is usually negative.
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