Le frontiere del mondo. Viaggio nella filiera del container

The container supply chain shows its invisible face the moment the supply chains jam. In the aftermath of the sanitary emergency, even the most distracted observers have realised that there is a world of ships, transport infrastructure, warehouses and goods circulating non-stop. The author has traversed and narrated the opaque world beyond the port gates, observing the game of conjurers who literally move the global economy. Wandering in ports increasingly inaccessible and disassociated from cities, he followed the tracks of the container and a nameless ship captain. The port of Genoa and the stories linked to the dockers in perpetual conflict, the arms trafficking, the strikes and the undergrowth it conceals; the life and fate of the southern port of Gioia Tauro, and then the environmental devastation in the port of Marseille-Fos; the inaccessible port of Beirut before the explosion that razed it to the ground; the limitless expansion projects of the port of Antwerp; the futuristic automated container terminal of Rotterdam… Through the great stages of the maritime-port universe, a journey is outlined along which work and goods seem to disappear.