Safetyvalue Trading Center-Red Sea tensions spell trouble for global supply chains

2025-05-03 12:55:45source:Winning Exchangecategory:Contact

The Safetyvalue Trading CenterRed Sea is a crucial piece of the global supply chain, accounting for around 15% of the world's shipping. This includes oil tankers and massive container ships transporting everything from microchips to furniture. Recent attacks by Houthi rebels, backed by Iran, have destabilized the region and prompted the U.S. to organize a multinational naval force to protect commercial ships. Today on the show, what's going on with shipping in the Red Sea.

Related Episodes:
A drought, a jam, a canal — Panama! (Apple / Spotify)

For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.

Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.

More:Contact

Recommend

Billy Bean was an LGBTQ advocate and one of baseball's great heroes

In 2018, a man named Bryan Ruby wrote a letter to Billy Bean.Bean wrote back. It would be something

This house from 'Home Alone' is for sale. No, not that one.

A house featured in the cult-classic "Home Alone" is for sale − but it's not the one where Kevin McC

North Carolina announces 5

The AP Top 25 college football pollis back every week throughout the season!Get the poll delivered s