March 31, 2021· 32 min

How Gigantic Ships Are Creating Global Supply Chain Havoc

Orality
Model
84%
Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)

Speaker Breakdown

HostJoe Weisenthal(1,233 words)
M:94%
HostTracy Alloway(971 words)
M:29%
GuestMarc Levinson(2,704 words)
M:27%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic34%
very, absolutely, obviously
Engagement41%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, right, now
Repetition100%
ships (58x), they (54x), ship (36x)
Parallelism87%
And I'm Tracy Alloway...., So Maybe that happened before ..., So last week was a really good...
Sound Patterns48%
26 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases4%
i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging13%
may, maybe, could
Passive Voice14%
been freed, been floated, were supposed
Abstract Nouns16%
investment, business, chase.com/business
Subordination11%
while, because, nonetheless
Sentence Length39%
Avg: 14.7 words/sentence
Word Complexity46%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style59%
218 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style98%
apply, early, supply

Description

The Ever Given has been freed from the Suez Canal. But the whole situation was indicative of a broader issue in global supply chains: increasingly large ships are contributing to logistical bottlenecks. This was true long before the latest issue on the Suez. On the latest episode of Odd Lots, we speak with economist and historian Marc Levinson, the author of the book The Box, to discuss the rise of extremely large ships and the stress they place on ports, canals, and other parts of the global trading infrastructure. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.