Friday, December 5, 2008

The Box in LA

The BBC has started a very interesting project to track the movement of a shipping container for 1 year.
The shipping container started its trip in September 2008 – it was shipped from Southampton (UK) to Shanghai (China) with a cargo of Scotch Whiskey. You can get detains of the project here

You can track the voyage of the container so far, using this map (you will probably need to use the zoom keys to get this detail).

The container has just reached Los Angeles in the USA in this latest article. Read it, and use a suitable diagram to explain this statement “For instance, the charter rates for container ships have plummeted by as much as 60% or more”

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