The Magic Box: Following A Container Around the World
First episode: the box gets painted
It is hard to believe, but fifty years ago if you brought a load of stuff from Japan by ship, a bunch of longshoremen would be carrying it out of the ships by hand. It could take a week to unload a freighter. The shipping container changed everything and for better or worse, made globalism possible.
The BBC has followed one around the world and tells "the stories behind the goods inside, those who make them, and how they travel to consumers." 
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See it all here:The Box gets paintedThe Box ready to start journeyBBC Box arrives in ShanghaiThe Box unloads in ShanghaiBBC box leaves GreenockShipping ports face economic stormNew cargo for the Box
via Mark at BoingBoingMore on Shipping Containers in TreeHuggerCrate Expectations: 12 Shipping Container Housing Ideas : TreeHuggerShipping Container Housing: Are the Floors Toxic? Happy 53rd Birthday, Big Metal Box!
