Relatively speaking, shipping is the greenest form of transport in comparison to trucks, planes and trains
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As of this moment, there are roughly 20 million containers crossing the world
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If you stacked up the containers of just one ship’s cargo, they would reach the height of nearly 7,500 Eiffel Towers
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Shipping is so cheap that it’s less costly for Scotland to ship its fish to and from China to be filleted rather than to have it filleted in Scotland
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There is an estimated 10,000 shipping containers lost at sea every year (or approximately one container lost every hour)
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Approximately two thirds of ship crews around the world have no means of communication with the outside world when out on the open sea
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A large container ship has roughly 1,000 times more power than the average family car
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Ships as large as container ships are not controlled, or steered, by a spoke steering wheel, but rather by either joystick or mouse.
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