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Podcast: The Jordan Harbinger Show
Episode: 739: Matthew Campbell | Examining Global Shipping’s Grim Underbelly
Description: Matthew Campbell (@MattCampbell) is an award-winning reporter and editor for Bloomberg Businessweek magazine and the co-author, with Kit Chellel, of Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy.
What We Discuss with Matthew Campbell:
The International Chamber of Shipping estimates about 90 percent of world trade is carried by the international shipping industry to the tune of around $14 trillion (about 2/3rds of the US GDP) per year.
Piracy persists in places along these lucrative shipping lines because people who have nothing to lose are willing to risk their lives for...