Season 2 · Episode 1670
The Ever Given: A 400-Meter Time Capsule
One ship blocked a canal for six days, but the ripple effects lasted for months. Here’s what it taught us about global fragility.
My Weird Prompts · Daniel Rosehill
March 28, 202620m 50s
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Show Notes
Five years ago, the Ever Given container ship wedged itself across the Suez Canal, halting 12% of global trade. This episode unpacks the incident as a case study in systemic risk, exploring how a single point of failure can cascade through a just-in-time economy. We examine the mismatch between ever-larger ships and static infrastructure, the hidden dependencies in modern logistics, and why the six-day blockage created months of global disruption.