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Shipping the World

Year: 2019 Documentary Seasons: 1 Episodes: 4

Overview

International trade has been ferried around the world via boat for centuries. If the business of shipping stopped tomorrow, half the world would starve, and the other half would freeze. A testament of humanity's will to tame the elements and expand our reach; shipping has pioneered new technologies, revolutionized the global economy and reshaped the world as we know it.

Genres

Documentary

Cast

Don Battee

Don Battee

Narrator (voice)

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