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The Suez Canal handles roughly 12% of global trade every single day, and Port Said sits right at the front door. When something goes wrong in these waters — a grounded ship, a geopolitical flare-up, a spike in insurance rates — American consumers feel it from the grocery aisle to the car dealership.
Before your Amazon package or your car's engine parts ever reach an American port, they pass through the hands — and the watchful eyes — of the men and women who keep the Suez Canal moving. We spent time with tugboat captains, canal pilots, and dockworkers to hear the stories they rarely get to tell.
From the coffee in your morning cup to the sneakers on your feet, the Suez Canal quietly shapes the price of nearly everything Americans buy. We went deep on the history, the economics, and the jaw-dropping scale of this 120-mile stretch of water — and why Port Said sits at the very center of it all.