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 …
Read the full story »First the container carried Chivas Regal Whisky from the UK to Shanghai.
Close to the route of the container can be found new and interesting places.
Every once in a while some facts and figures related to container shipping.
Updates whenever the BBC reports significant movement of the container.
Both original and other movies further conveying the drama of container travel.
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 the map reproduced here. Depending, of course, upon the vessel’s speed and ports along the way, the journey may take as long as 20 days.
Assuming this approximate route, the vessel may be within sight of Russian volcanos and other incredible scenery. The pictures below are during what I expect is the peak of the warm season as other pictures I’ve seen have everything covered in snow. It’s a harsh, but surreally beautiful country.
Russia’s eastern-most point (I guess they can see the “backyard” of Governor Sarah Palin home in Alaska from here?). This picture is captioned, “Research Station”.
But seriously, the scenery is breathtaking…
Kamchatka Peninsula
Kamchatka Peninsula
Kamchatskaya Oblast Pushchino
Kamchatskaya Oblast Pushchino
Sakhalinskaya Oblast Podgornyy
Sakhalinskaya Oblast Vanderlind
Satellite view of Russia’s eastern-most island.
