Literally Pirated Goods
In this piece last month, I noted the inefficiency of shipping tons of U.S. grain to Africa rather than buying cheap food locally and saving millions in shipping costs. But I failed to mention another downside of shipping:
A hulking UN-chartered cargo ship, docked at a port in Somalia this week, was halfway finished unloading its 850 tons of corn and rice when a band of gun-toting bandits stormed aboard and forced the crew to take the ship to sea.
It was the second hijacking of a UN food-aid ship in four months in Somalia.
