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LESSON 3 · Why Countries Trade

PAUSE TO THINK

Just how much cargo moves across the world's oceans by container ship?

Hundreds of millions of container loads cross the oceans every year

A single large container ship can carry over 20,000 twenty-foot containers, and thousands of these ships are at sea at once, keeping global supply chains constantly in motion.

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