How Shipping Containers Explain the Conflict in Yemen

Yemen is experiencing one of the world's worst humanitarian crises and the circuitous route and tangled politics that cargo ships must navigate in order unload their goods on Yemen's ports helps explain why that is.

Yemen has two main ports, Hodeidah to the north, on the Red Sea and Aden to the south, on the Gulf of Aden. Of these two ports, Hodeidah is …