Thursday, February 19, 2009

Mountain of forlorn shipping containers in HK port


Mountain of forlorn shipping containers in HK port - Boing Boing:

This photo by Bobby Yip for Reuters shows the mounting towers of shipping containers piling up in the port of Hong Kong as container ships, piled up in anticipation of orders from the west that never came. The shipping container may be the most potent totem of the 2000s -- up there with spurs and barbed wire, the locomotive, the sextant and other symbols of bygone eras."

1 comment:

nycmom99 said...

This reminded me of a great article "Crate Expectations" which designed houses/stores out of shipping containers

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/10/shipping-container-houses.php