The shipping container completely transformed commerce over 50 years ago. It's part of the reason the Planet Money women's T-shirt comes from cotton grown in Mississippi, spun into yarn in Indonesia, and sewn together in Colombia.
On today's show, we meet the captain of a giant container ship bringing our women's T-shirt home to the United States and challenge him to a game of ping pong.
View our T-shirt's journey at planetmoney.com/shirt.
And listen to more of our T-shirt podcasts here.
Note: Today's show is a rerun. It originally ran in December 2013.
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