Episode details

World Service,26 Mar 2024,26 mins
Container ship crashes into a bridge in the US
World Business ReportAvailable for over a year
Rahul Tandon examines the economic impact of the crash in a busy shipping lane in Baltimore. We also hear how much it might cost to repair. Shares in Donald Trump's media company have soared by more than 55 per cent, after it began trading on the Nasdaq stock market. Truth Social raised money through a shell company called a SPAC before being listed. We hear how the tiny Pacific island nation of Palau is trying to boost tourism. During Covid, that industry was decimated, and the country's lost around a fifth of its GDP. (Picture: View of the Dali Cargo vessel which crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, US. Credit: Reuters/Nathan Howard)
Programme Website