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Rose George: Inside the Secret Shipping Industry

by Dan
Current Affairs / December 16, 2013

Ninety-Percent of Everything

Almost everything we own and use travels to us by container ship through a vast network of ocean routes and ports that most of us know almost nothing about. Speaking at a recent TED conference in Singapore, Journalist Rose George, author of Ninety Percent of Everything, tours us through the world of shipping, the underpinning of consumer civilization:

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