September
10th 2008
Posted under Slices of Awesome
The Box is an ambitious and unique year-long project for BBC News to tell the story of international trade and globalization by tracking a standard shipping container around the world.
We have painted and branded a BBC container and bolted on a GPS transmitter so you can follow its progress all year round as it criss-crosses the globe. The Box will hopefully reach the US, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa and when it does BBC correspondents will be there to report on who’s producing goods and who’s consuming them.
We are keeping our fingers crossed the Box does not fall overboard (it happens) and that it gives us a better understanding of what ties countries and continents together.
Source: BBC News