Our move to England has involved an introduction to the massive industry of container shipping, which I've found to be rather fascinating. On 21 June, a 20-foot container arrived at our house, which we loaded up with all our belongings. It's now on a ship called the APL Qatar (at least, by process of elimination, I've determined with 95% certainty that this is the ship it's on), and is supposed to dock at the Port of Felixstowe tomorrow morning. It has been fun to track the ship as it's moved across the Atlantic using a tool I found at MarineTraffic.com.

According to Wikipedia, there are some 18,000,000 containers that make 200,000,000 trips each year around the world. This whole shipping industry is really an incredible operation. The ship our container is on holds some 4,000 containers, and can be loaded and unloaded in just a few hours. Below are some photos of the whole process, including loading our container, the ship our container is on, and some photos of the operations at Felixstowe.