sidereal on Nostr: Up to 60% of the shipping on the Indian Ocean is done by traditional wooden sailing ...
Up to 60% of the shipping on the Indian Ocean is done by traditional wooden sailing ships without motors or radios. It’s just like Kenyans trading with Indonesians and things like that. No white people involved. So it doesn’t make it into the econ textbooks or GDP statistics.
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