The biggest container ship can carry fifteen thousand boxes. It can hold 746 million bananas, one for every European, on one ship.
Sending a container from Shanghai to Le Havre emits fewer greenhouse gases than the truck that takes the container on to Lyon.
Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing.
Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount of stuff.