The pandemic economy's latest victim? The lowly shipping container
Delayed containers are a symptom of and contributor to global supply chain problems. But imagine a world without them.
Ah, the unassuming shipping container. It's really nothing more than a big steel box with a couple of doors. At any given time, millions of containers are piled on ships plying the world's waterways. Battered by weather and waves, they are packed with just about anything you can imagine â exotic fruits and vegetables, cheap clothing and electronics, parts for cars and trucks.
"Globalization, as we know it today, would not have been possible without the container," says Marc Levinson, an economist, a historian and on shipping containers.
