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The $2 Trillion Push to Build the Ports of the Future

On today’s Big Take podcast: Ports are becoming hubs for countries like the US and China to advance their interests, in the midst of technology upgrades and climate change pressures.

A wind turbine near containers stacked at the newly merged Port of Antwerp-Bruges in Antwerp, Belgium, on Thursday, April 28, 2022. The port, unified today from the ports of Antwerp and Zeebrugge, is Europe's largest export port, throughput port for vehicles and integrated chemical cluster as well as one of the region's leading container ports, according to the port's website.Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg

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By Sarah Holder, Jessica Beck, and Adriana Tapia Zafra

August 20, 2024 at 9:33 PM UTC

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Ports often make the news when they break: like the bridge collapse that shut down Baltimore's port earlier this year. But every day, ports in cities around the world keep supply chains humming and feed local economies; every year, they help move 80% of the things we buy.