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If you're at home right now, look around you.
There's a very good chance that the majority of the stuff in your house, from your fridge to the contents of your fridge to your phone and the clothes you're wearing, all arrived from far away in the same way by sea.
So prepare yourself for some eye watering numbers over the next hour as we try to get to grips with the sheer scale of an industry that feeds the lifestyles we have become accustomed to.
The shipping industry, like the biggest ships in the world, are among the largest moving structures ever made by man and can carry over 24,000 20 foot container units.
You can fit four football pitches on these ships and the stacks of containers can reach some 22 storeys high and container ships carry about 90% of goods traded around the world.
And yep, that means everything from bananas to baseball caps to beds.