Shipping containers travel the world.
– seeing other shipping containers.
Notes: My commuter train takes me past stacked up shipping containers and this causes me to reflect on their travels*. For example, moving across the vast Pacific on a giant ship, perhaps through the Panama canal, up to the Port of Montreal, and perhaps on a train across the great plains. The logistics behind all of this are mind-boggling, and fascinating**. But then I realize that the life of a shipping container is likely rather ‘constricted’ since these boxes are packed so tightly on the ship or train. The travels of the shipping containers are not very glamorous. Regardless, they are a reminder, to me, that we are a connected world.
*yes, this blog is normally nature-inspired, but it’s not necessary to be constrained by that framing! So, today you get train tracks, hydro lines, and shipping containers. And, you will note that the Haiku doesn’t look too Haiku-like, but that’s ok 🙂
** you can spend a lot of time digging into facts about shipping containers. For example… this post says that 95% of cargo, worldwide, is shipped via shipping containers. Wow.
© Christopher M Buddle 2022
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