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How the World's Companies Wound Up in a Deepening Supply Chain Nightmare

Odd Lots

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Can You Tell Us What's Going on With the Containers?

The name of the game here is second order effects, like you just couldn't predict what was going to happen. A hundred and 20 other ships containing 12 hundred flexport containers were stuck behind that ship or ahead of it,. And also couldn't be delivered. The company shipping the cargo, not the owner of the ship, but the company whose cargo owns the cargo. It's a fascinating, wicked periarticle.

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