Curiosities of maritime transport

90% of goods are transported by sea, making the ship the king of freight transport.

When a fully loaded ship leaves Shanghai for Spain, it consumes around 1 million euros in fuel.

As you read this, 20 million containers are going from one part of the world to another.

That many cars or bottles of rum can be carried by the HMM Algeciras, which is the largest container ship in the world.

The Scots send their own cod 10,000 miles, to be filleted in China and then returned to Scotland.

A container can be transformed into a cosy little house 6 or 12 meters high.

In Las Vegas there is the downtown container Park: a shopping mall made up of containers.