BBC News: The Box takes off on global journey
Monday, 8 September 2008, 13:49
"The Box is an ambitious and unique year-long project for BBC News to tell the story of international trade and globalisation 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."
Saturday, 26 January 2008, 11:54
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Beijing to Hamburg in 15 days by rail. Biggest snag: the switch between standard-gauge to Russian-gauge at the Chinese-Mongolian and Belarusia-Polish borders.
