'Supply Chain Wayne' tells the tale of Connor the Container

Another children’s book explaining world trade via container shipping has been published, this time by a Maersk employee. 

Following Flexport’s CEO Ryan Petersen’s Covid-era tale, The Big Ship and the Little Digger, based on the jamming of the Evergreen ship in the Panama Canal, comes The Adventures of Connor the Container. 

Written by Wayne Yoshida, Mekong, North East Asia & Oceania talent acquisition manager at Maersk, the book follows Connor’s voyages around the world as he picks up Ecuadorian bananas to take to China, tuna to Japan, and auto parts to Africa. 

Sadly for Connor, he is booked to pick up aluminium in Canada and export it to the US to be made into cars – but his thoughts on tariffs have not been recorded. And like all good containers, he ends up having something of a holiday at an intermodal facility in California. 

The book also contains a wordsearch – possibly the only one designed for children in the world with words like ’lading’, ‘fulfilment’ and ‘distribution’. 

Mr Yoshida, also known as ‘Supply Chain Wayne’, said he wanted to introduce young readers to global trade.