Deep Waters: Container ships

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Container ships are the monsters of the seas - the very biggest are almost half a kilometre long and piled high with up to 20,000 huge boxes. At any one time, there are tens of thousands of these floating cities on the move, many unable even to dock at local ports. It’s our relentless demand for more and cheaper stuff that drives the industry. We meet the British salvage man who’s making millions from the boxes that get left behind, lost or abandoned - yet another example of how invisible the world of shipping is, even though the whole planet depends on it. Image: Jake Slinn, founder of JS Global, at Felixstowe docks

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0:00.0	At normal transactions.
0:03.0	It's a kind of cyberadakwana bank.
0:05.0	Ten of millions of dollars.
0:07.0	Something I don't think anybody has seen before.
0:09.0	It's a cyber-criminal group.
0:11.0	From the BBC World Service.
0:12.0	The Lazarusized is back for season two.
0:14.0	It was really like in the movies.
0:16.0	Find out more at the end of this podcast.
0:23.0	This is the Portafuelic Stone.
0:26.0	We're looking out over the grey waters of the estuary here.
0:30.0	And there's a gigantic bright green container vessel lined up here
0:38.0	on the edge here of the key.
0:40.0	And a line of cranes and dark grey gantries.
0:45.0	Laurie's going back and forth.
0:48.0	And wherever you look and looking in land as well.
0:52.0	Mountains of containers, blue, grey, green, rust red.
1:01.0	You're listening to deep waters on the documentary
1:04.0	from the BBC World Service.
1:06.0	Our series on the hidden world of global shipping with me Tim Hewall.
1:12.0	The World Service.
1:21.0	In this final episode and exploring the interplay between the box trade and human lives.
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