How a drought forecast turns into a shipping decision

This is fictional sample content, created to demonstrate the layout. The places, people and figures in it are invented. It is not reporting.

Low water does not stop a river. It changes how much a vessel can carry, which changes what it is worth sending, which changes what arrives.

In this episode we follow one consignment from a forecast issued in April to a loading decision taken in June, and ask who actually makes the call.

The pilot has thirty years on the same stretch. The planner has a spreadsheet and a tolerance of four centimetres.

Running time 24 minutes. A transcript is published with the episode.