Denmark was not happy about the embarrassing December incident involving boxes falling off a Maersk giant due to a large storm in the North Sea. Not (reportedly) because it had anything to do with a Danish shipping company, but because of having to confront debris on West Coast beaches just before Christmas…
Now, someone’s read the book about Lego bits from containers still washing up on Cornwall beaches 27 years later, and the stress is real.
(Caption: “Not all locals think the clean-up is going quickly enough. The beachgoers DR spoke to were, however, good-natured given that it was Christmas”.)
(Caption: “But the large amount of syringes does raise particular concerns”.)
The article concludes by quoting Tracey Williams (author of the Lego book):
Mange af de varer, vi bestiller og køber, bliver bragt via fragtskibe, så mit råd er nok først og fremmest, at man skal handle lokalt.
Op. cit.
Translation: “Many of the commodities we order and buy are transported by container ships, so my main advice would be to buy local”.
Maybe the locals would have taken it better had it been Lego blocks washing up on their shores after having been transported by one of their own sea giants.
It would have been a great story about the triumph of the local, and fairytales, and Lego.
Still, they/we got a new king yesterday.
