BBC Box

The Box or BBC Box (BIC code: NYKU8210506) was a single ISO intermodal container which was tracked by BBC News between September 2008 and April 2009, as part of a project to study international trade and globalisation.

[1] The Box was fitted with tracking equipment, and painted in a special one-off BBC livery.

[4] Following the end of the project in 2009, the shipping container was donated by its owner, Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) to a charity to be turned into a soup kitchen.

It travelled to its first destination to take on its first cargo; a consignment of whisky from a Glasgow-based bottling plant to Shanghai, China.

On arrival in Shanghai, the Box was met and reported on by British school pupils on a trip to China.