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Odd Lots · January 22, 2024 · 45m
What the Red Sea Shipping Crisis Means for Global Trade
Weisenthal and Alloway explain how Houthi attacks in the Red Sea forced container ships to reroute around Africa, adding 10-14 days to shipping times and raising freight rates 300%. They explore why global supply chains remain fragile despite post-COVID promises of resilience.
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Alloway argues that consumers and businesses have so thoroughly adapted to cheap, fast global shipping that it has become invisible infrastructure — noticed only in its absence, never in its presence.
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Global supply chains are optimized for efficiency, not resilience — and every crisis re-teaches this lesson
Despite promises after COVID to build more resilient supply chains, the Red Sea crisis showed that global shipping still depends on a handful of chokepoints (Suez, Panama, Malacca) with no practical alternatives.Was this useful?