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Sunday 6 December 2009

Where does a shipping container go in a year?

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The BBC undertook a quirky project this past year that I thought you might find interesting.

They tracked a 40' shipping container for a full year on it's journey around the world carrying numerous different types of cargo. During the year it covered about about 50,000 miles by sea, road and rail. It is completing it's final voyage now to South Africa where it will be retired from service and turned into a soup kitchen.

This is fascinating and well worth a look. For more on this project including videos of it's journey and an interactive map of it's travels click here to go to the BBC's "The Box" website.

All for now,
Brad Skelton
The Shipping Bloke

1 comment:

  1. Looks like that ship was attacked by Israel.
    The people aboard the boat fought back. . . Israel is a nation of bullies and
    needs to be stopped. This madness can't continue..
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