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delta were climate change is closing in on one of europe's most important wetlands and generations of rice farmers. chelsea delaney and berlin. welcome to g w. fitness. in many parts of the world, people are wrapping up last minute presence to put under the tree. chances are some of those items cross the ocean on a container ship. as we look back on 2021 a year, that has been filled with surprises for the global economy. the disruptions we've seen across global shipping routes have had a particular impact on businesses and consumers. and the image that likely sticks in many of our minds is that of the ever given a ship that is as wide as the empire state building is tall and march, it got stuck in this west canal for 6 days, sparking global shipping chaos and countless, countless online jokes and even some creative ideas to free the ship. eventually it was thanks to salvage teams and not flatter mere putin. now,

our reporter janelle jamila, on looks at the lessons learned from the ever given fiasco. the ever given may no longer be stuck in this was, but it's hardly home free. the incident shown a spotlight on how big ships have gotten in the last decades as they link manufacturing from asia to growing consumption in the west. today's largest ships are able to hold around 24000 containers. so it really revealed that we are very tiny little things in the world of global trade. and that one, you know, ship, that is a, be a cost, you know, could actually block something that looks like a very well machine. so as consumption grows in trade volumes increase, does that mean ships are going to get bigger? and definitely it seems as if the container ships right now have also found somewhat of a maximum, at least if we go also buy that regular amount of orders where $45.00 on our

lot ships were ordered. and most of those were basically in the size of 15000 and not 20 for free and 24000. that was, that was the preferred size for, for investors, and owners placing orders by the end of last year. but the boats are one part of the story, the goods they carry or another, the grounding, delayed deliveries at a time or the pandemic already caused shortages of parts and products, leaving companies grappling with their supply chain, a complex affair, resorting something very complicated. because you can move the soloist in orchestra, but you can move the food for dominic orchestra. rebuilding competencies rebuilding the know how the infrastructure having the competitive cost based on that takes time. but other industry observers say there's a larger discussion to be had beyond the path that bring products to consumers.

it's less about thinking about resiliency or local lighting supply chains than about reducing consumption about building supply chain models, not as reliable, constant, constant growth. fix ships, little waterways and supply chains that found the world. the effects from the ever given incident are still creating ripples because shipping is the strain holding modern capitalism together. government businesses, consumers and regulators need to decide what lessons to derive from it and how best to act as a result. now for more on this, i'm joined now by shaneka, sarah mana, from the united nations conference on trade and development. shaneka, thanks for being here. why have we seen global supply chains break down in such a dramatic way during this pen back? i think this is a typical corey 19 pandemic induce crisis is started in the west coast of the united states and in cascade to the rest of the world. and this is largely driven

by increasing demand for goods as people was can to go to james and cinema and restaurants. they started to order online also for food pill, upon bikes, and exercise machines and, and other electronic gadgets. so the demand went up and all these things need to be, you know, brought in from ships. so that was the demand side. on the supply side, the port work on distant the transports or backed up. and because this was because of the very st sanitary conditions, so we now have a perfect storm coming from both from the demand and supply side. and so perfect storm, how exactly can all of these issues be sorted out? there is only one way we need to wax in the world. that's the only way. so the investment in vaccination for those countries that have vaccine, and roxy nations and who produce vaccination would be not just to an or weird off

this her pandemic, but it would also add enormous amount of money to the global recovery. so it, so in when number one number too many of this port infrastructure and the transport had been neglected, all that, yes. so lot needs to be done. a lot needs to be done to prepare these things, these, these infrastructure for resilience for disaster that's coming their way digital i fish and d, cabin i session. so there is an address agenda. so it seems that in particular, small businesses have been hit really hard by these issues, but who would you say are the winners and losers of the global supply chain issues we're seeing? so the container shipping lines not receiving this very high freight rate. obviously when us and then the shippers and also land containers at the receiving

end of this problem. but not the big ship. it's not the cost coal, all off the world. but the small medium enterprises who are trying to import and export for they are now being enormous amount of prices just to get their content as you know, shipped. and then of course, the consumers, whenever there is a price hike in free trade and other cost you just normally would then trickle down to the consumers and the consumers. not all of them. consumers in developing countries are paying lot more because inflation, we have done some calculations to show that the price life is much higher in developing countries, especially small island developing countries. so the consumers that are the ones who are paying most. busy and the consumers in developing countries. shemika, sarah mana, thank you so much for your insights. thank you very much. now to some of the other

global business stories, making news. airlines across the world have cancelled more than 2000 flights on christmas eve. that's according to data from the website flight aware of the likes of united airlines and delta. so the spread of the new owner con variant is taking a toll on flight cruise and ground personnel. the chinese government has denounced a new u. s. law that restricts imports from sion. john saying it violates violates international law. president biden signed the measure thursday. it prohibits you as businesses from importing goods from the chinese region unless they prove forced labor was not used. beijing denies complaints of abuse against the weaker month muslim minority and john russia has find google $98000000.00 thing. the company repeatedly failed to delete material band and the country. later on friday, a court in moscow ordered facebook's parent company mehta to pay $27000000.00 for

a similar infraction. it marks the 1st time russia has find the companies based on a percentage of their russian to turnover. now the climate crisis is changing the landscape and stains a bro delta where rising sea levels are threatening to swallow up, lie low lying areas. the government solution is building sand dunes to hold back the sea environments. environmentalists are in favor of the plan, but the rice farmers who rely on the land are not. they are fighting for their livelihoods and their heritage. extreme weather events and rising sea water levels have eroded the coast, leaving little more than this strip of land near the river delta. it's the last line of defense between the sea and the countless rice paddies that lie inland. the spanish government wants to nationalize over $800.00 hector's,

of privately owned land, to turn it into an additional buffer zone. but local rice, farmers are angry quick, they cerebus fears he could lose half his crops. and it's not clear what sort of compensation he would receive in return. most farmers are not only concerned about financial losses though. id, cynthia, this is the emotional, but yet in many cases of ideals have been cast on for many generations. the little problem is i worked very hard to get mine level figured by the government plan doesn't bode well for the delta. this is alyssa, is it get my am factor? got it will destroy the delta v and, and will lose our land value. always get him off but not everyone the poses the government plan. environmentalists regard the delta as one of europe's most important wetlands. over $300.00 bird species inhabit the region.

sophia revise runs a private bird sanctuary. she thinks there's no point in piling up tons of sand when dumping wife break is in see as the farmers are demanding slash ill there, that window settlers were more gushy. the predominant mentality was to exactly nature to the fullest twin practically the entire delta was transformed into rice fields. our now it's time for change, but not every one approves of this scientists. it's a natural solutions are better suited to reducing the effects of climate change not really denying this is like denying coverage to go. it's was us. yes. yes. yeah. and he got, he suddenly issued eskromonty got a recall, the locals are divided over how to deal with the threat of climate change and the eroding april delta. though it might be too late if they wait until environmentalists farmers and the government reach

a consensus. and finally, a christmas present for tick tock. the social media app has surpassed google as the world's most popular website. that's according to cloud fair, a tech firm that tracks online activities. more than 1000000000 users sign onto scroll, tick, tock, monthly, mostly children and teenagers. tick tock was launched in 2016 by china's bite dance soon, becoming a global sensation. and you're up to date with dw business from me and the whole business team have a happy christmas small acts can inspire big changes, meet the people, making it possible on it, go africa, joined them as they set out to save the environment, learn from one another,

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