#733 It's a Small World

The world just isn't that big and the shipping industry ties us all together.

We often see Hamburg Sud containers loaded on rail cars passing our historic Aurora train depot in Missouri, 4,714 miles from their home in northern Europe.

Even since this little guy came into our lives, we pay extra close attention to these trains coming to town.  Sometimes we stop and watch so we can see just who (JB Hunt, Hamburg Sud) is rolling by.

Hamburg Sud, mercifully short for Hamburg Südamerikanische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft ApS & Co KG, ranks among the ten largest container shipping brands and is part of Denmark's Maersk Line, the world’s largest container shipping company. It employs 25,000 on land and 7,000 seafarers on 800 vessels.  [from Wikipedia]

In 2008, we spotted this Maersk ship in the Baltic Sea.

And in 2014, we found this Maersk container welcoming us back to our ship, the MV Explorer, after a day spent exploring Isafjordur, Iceland.

Yours in following the shipping lines from our home to the world,
Mary Jo