March 2020: cruise liners roam off the coast of several supposedly heavenly destinations;
they are turned back by ports which refuse that passengers, possibly contaminated by Covid, set foot on land.
March 2021: Hundreds of container ships clump together in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, at both ends of a Suez Canal blocked by a beached freighter, the
Ever Given
.
March 2022: tankers full to the brim with Russian oil roam the oceans, without destination because without customers.
Buyers prefer black gold which does not have the smell of war.
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The sea has been the playground of globalization for decades.
The gigantism of cargo ships and the number of containers have given the measure of the extraordinary development of international trade.
No wonder then that the three major shocks that have affected globalization in just two years - the pandemic, the shortages, the Ukrainian crisis - have created castaways...
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