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WITH PORT SCOUTS ON A DISCOVERY TOUR
What really goes on in port terminals? How does the interior of a container look? And what sort of things can be carried by ship? Port Scouts know the answers. Backing the project are Hamburg Port Museum, Hamburg Teacher Training & School Development Institute and Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA). The scheme gives fourth- grade Hamburg schoolchildren the opportunity of gaining an insight into the port. In the Port Muse- um they can readily experience just how work in the Port of Hamburg used to look and how it does today. One highlight is a container specially fitted out for the Scouts. This features cargo and mean- while everyday items that first reach us in con- tainers. The box graphically demonstrates where our track shoes, jeans, tea, bananas and much else originate. The trip continues to the automat- ed HHLA Container Terminal Altenwerder. Here the youngsters gain a close-up view of how con- tainers and mega-carriers are handled. This is truly a special day out for them, punctuated con- tinuously by gasps of astonishment
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‘Home Sweet Home’ in a container
Cities lure crowds of people, yet living space is grow- ing scarce and in many places, impossible to afford. One new trend in conurbations is towards ‘Tiny Hous- es’, frequently offering no more than 15 square metres
of space. That can mean living in a container. Thinking initially of crude building-site containers or the like, these may sound uninviting. Yet containers as mi-
ni-dwellings have something to offer. A used 40-ft con- tainer costs about 2,000 euros, offers 26 square metres of living space and ample scope for creativity. Container houses are robust, sustainable, comparatively low-cost and rapidly erected. They save space. In Berlin, for ex- ample, containers have been used to provide a student hostel under project EBA 51. The stacked boxes offer small apartments with sleeping and living areas, kitch- enettes and bathrooms, or everything necessary for liv-
ing.
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