Stocks that Float: TANKERS & DRY BULK SHIPPERS

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How a shipping container can tell the story of global trade?
The Box - a program by BBC

Are you interested to know how the world economy works, what the trade globalization really can be? BBC is making a serie of programs describing the travelling of one container all over the world during one year. The program started in September 2008 from Southampton - with a container called "BBC News", carrying 25.000 bottles of whisky - and headed to Shanghai. The program explains how the container was filled, how it was loaded on the ship, how it was unloaded and transported to a Shanghai warehouse etc. Now the container is on its way to Singapore. BBC will track the voyage of this container for one year, and you can follow on a map the travel on BBC site. If you like to see how a giant harbor works, they'll explain that too.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/business/2008/the_box/default.stm

Enjoy!