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Page last updated at 14:39 GMT, Monday, 1 June 2009 15:39 UK
Track the route of the Box

BBC News is following a container around world for a year to tell stories of globalisation and the world economy - track the BBC Box on a live updating map as it travels the globe.


The Box

See full version of map including route taken by the Box so far


LATEST NEWS, FEATURES
Carlos Zaha, radio broadcaster
From Brazil to Japan and back again
Roland Buerk meets Brazilian migrants in Japan, many of whom are now struggling to make a living, mulling going back.
Adam Mynott on board the Elly Maersk Sea giant
Life on board one of world's biggest container ships
The Box Brazil bound
Trade slows at S America's biggest container port
China from China Big Apple
Goods from The Box arrive in stores around New York
The BBC Box on a truck [Photo: Alastair Blackwood] Your pictures
Trains, trucks and boats - readers' images of the Box
The Box First voyage
The Box unloads Scotch whisky in Shanghai
The Box Hard times in LA
Real evidence of decline as the Box reaches the US

BACKGROUND
Container converted to an office The bizarre uses for containers

box How containers transformed world
The Box See the Box get a double-quick paint job

Man in call centre Globalisation explained, with key facts and figures


PROJECT UPDATE
We've had trouble tracking the Box - BBC Business Editor Jeremy Hillman explains why
The Box has arrived in Japan carrying a cargo of food products
Email the box team on thebox@bbc.co.uk
Have you seen the Box? You can send your pictures here or here
The Box's first voyage saw it carry a cargo of whisky from Scotland to China
Amongst overwhelming response , card model designer David Hathaway sent us this PDF so you can build your own Box:
BBC Box model plan [64KB]
The Box Background to the project
How a shipping container can tell the story of global trade

PIRACY CRISIS
Pirates attack second US vessel
Q&A: Somali piracy
From cutlass to AK-47
VIDEO REPORTS
Pupil BBC Box goes back to school

The Box arrives in Yokohama A 'faded' BBC Box arrives in Japan

The BBC Box The BBC Box arrives in Brazil

The Box BBC Box at Los Angeles port

Quentin Sommerville in Shanghai BBC Box arrives in Shanghai


Michal Husain at a port in Singapore Shipping ports face economic storm


BBC box BBC box leaves Greenock


Thanks for project planning help to Container Shipping Information Service

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