International trade in action - on board the container ship

This is a super video clip from the BBC’s Adam Mynott gets us onboard one of the world’s largest shipping containers. So much of what we buy as consumers in the UK arrives via these enormous container ships. As the video explains, the container shipping market is a “bloodbath” at the moment. It is suffering from signficant excess capacity as the volume of goods shipped between international economies has contracted sharply.

View video on container ships