BBC News has equipped a freight container with GPS and is tracking the container's journey around the globe. This story is brought to life with up-to-the-hour reports of the container's progress; currently loaded with whiskey and bound for Shanghai.
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A projection only. It would appear that the BBC News freight container will depart (or has departed but not yet been reported in the case of the first projection below) Shanghai for the United States ...
Having worked in the international freight business, I know full well how many people are in involved in getting a container to its final destination.
It all begins when an order is placed to a manufacturer ...
It has been estimated that container ships lose over 10,000 containers at sea each year (usually during a storm). One famous spillage occurred in the Pacific Ocean in 1992, when thousands of rubber ducks and ...
The precision of dead reckoning does not allow one to definitely say where the container is, but it provides enough information to indicate that it may no longer be ship-bound and is possibly on a ...
There is a lot I don’t know about shipping channels and I’m not sure about the BBC News “The Box” container’s destination in the United States, but my hunch is the route is something like ...
