BBC’s Box to Help the Hungry in Africa
In November, BBC’s Box finished its year-long global journey and landed back in London with some new facts about its round-the-world journey, which I found to be a great illustration of the challenges we all face in our global supply chains. For example:
The GPS satellite tracking on the container has been intermittent and for periods of the year, we have had to manually track the position of the Box, though not nearly as frequently as we would have liked.
Additionally, the box sat vacant for several weeks after suffering from effects from the global recession. The company that transported the box, NYK, lost $350 million dollars and 8,000 jobs.
- More info on the decrease in trade and its effect on the box at “Box’s Journey Dogged By Financial Crisis.”
Now, the box will be headed on one last trip: To Capetown, South Africa to be converted into a soup kitchen for schoolchildren and AIDS sufferers.
Our project partners NYK have generously agreed to donate the container for charitable use and they will transport it to Africa where it will be refitted as a permanent soup kitchen for some of those people who have been worst affected by the global recession.
To read the post-trip summary of the box, including a BBC News video, visit BBC News: Lessons Learned as the Box Returns.
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