Containerisation has long been regarded as one of the key drivers of the current wave of globalisation. And now the BBC is putting together a series of video reports entitled The Box to demonstrate the impact that containerisation is having on our lives. Here Declan Curry finds out how the container box has transformed the way cargo moves around the world and in this report, Declan explains why such containers are so important in the modern world.

The series is inspired by the recent book by Marc Levinson “The Box How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger” and seems destined to produce and tremendously rich vein of news clips for us over the next year. Hat tip to John Richards for alerting me to this.