Thread: US facing hunger crisis as demand for food banks soars

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Each year, more than 11 million maritime containers arrive at our seaports. At land borders, another 11 million arrive by truck and 2.7 million by rail.

Interesting figures:

Container 20ft (6m length):
-if loaded on trailer 10m length: 11+11+2.7mil.= 25 million containers x 10 m = a train of 250,000,000 m = 250,000 km
(isn't it delightful - and easy - to count with the metric units? how much it would be in ft and miles?)

That's 6 times around the globe every year (provided that Earth is not flat)

i.e.: 70,000 containers loaded down every day...

The vacancy of natural social and familiar extensions is quite staggering...