[Globalization] Containers and global transport

Howdy!
Our topic for today is Globalization and the global transport systems, especially the revolutionary transport medium “containers”.

Containers are steelboxes invented by the U.S. American Malcolm P. McLean who later founded the “Sealand Corporation Ltd.” which is now known as “Maersk – Sealand”, world’s biggest enterprise in sea transportation.

Short facts about a container:
- Lenght: 20′ / 40′; Height: 8′ 6″; Width: 8′
- Volume: 1,169 ft³ / 2,385 ft³
- Empty weight: 5,140 lb / 8,820 lb; Net load: 47,770 lb / 58,380 lb
40' ISO-Container

 Emma Maersk - The largest vessel on the seas

History stuff’s comin’ up time by time ;)

New blog created @ Seminarfach

G’day readers!

 This afternoon during the Seminarfach we all created an own blog for writing down our learning activities and successes.

The topic for our fist blog has to be a commentation concerning the three topic for our next semesters which are “globalization; africa; migraton”. Sounds pretty normal, and that’s exactly what my critics say.

Well, that three topics really sound like those of the boring politics lessons. And I’m not a big enthusiast in politics.
But, as Mr. Donath said he’s doesn’t like politcs very much, too. So he told that e.g. he wants to use the topic “globalization” to talk about the whole world in general, without many political aspects. I think that’s a good compromise which makes this topic more interesting for me. It’s even the one I like most. We talked about africa and migration in too many lessons before. English, politics, geography. Everywhere the same. That’s pretty boring.
So my personal favourite of the three topics clearly is… drums… globalization!

But I can’t prevent the other ones, so I’m trying just to sit there and do what I have to do. Learning. At the end it’s all an advantage for my life.

Thanks for reading!

Daniel

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