Name: 【TED】Rose George: Inside the secret shipping industry (Rose George: Inside the secret shipping industry)
Uploaded: 2015-12-05T15:43:50.000Z
Duration: 11 min 24 s
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I discovered that there were 544 seafarers

And I learned these two facts, and I thought,

And I thought, would that happen in any other industry?

almost for the fact that I hadn't known it before

That is how fundamentally we still depend on shipping.

thinks of shipping as an old-fashioned industry,

Shipping is as crucial to us as it has ever been.

Shipping brings us 90 percent of world trade.

Shipping has quadrupled in size since 1970.

We are more dependent on it now than ever.

And yet, for such an enormous industry --

there are a 100,000 working vessels on the sea —

Now that sounds absurd in Singapore to say that,

if you ask the general public what they know

about shipping and how much trade is carried by sea,

because they'll know that they make software

But if you ask them if they've heard of Maersk,

which is just one shipping company amongst many,

has revenues pretty much on a par with Microsoft.

the first sea lord of the British admiralty --

although the chief of the army is not called a land lord —

in the industrialized nations in the West,

considerably less jet-lagged than I am right now.

And one of the first things that surprised me

Now that's because shipping is very efficient.

Containerization has made it very efficient.

the average seafarer you're going to find

on a container ship is either tired or exhausted,

is quite punishing for what the shipping calls

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【TED】Rose George: Inside the secret shipping industry (Rose George: Inside the secret shipping industry)

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