Starbucks coffee shop, American influence, alongside Chinese street signs in Yu Garden Bazaar Market, Shanghai, China

Containership full spead ahead on the Kiel Canal, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

Dove of peace freeing prisoners, Amnesty International, painting on the remants of the Berlin Wall, East Side Gallery, Friedrichshain district, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Containership on Kiel Canal, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

Shipping traffic at Holtenau lock, Kiel Canal, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

Shipping traffic at the Schleuse Holtenau lock, container ships and cruise ship, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

Two container ships passing one another on Kiel Canal, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

Shipping container ships at Holtenau lock, Kiel Canal, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

Cruise Ship entering Holtenau lock, Kiel Canal, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

Containership on Kiel Canal, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

Close-up of container ships chanelling into the Holtenau floodgate, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

Shipping traffic on the Kiel-Canal, in the back the Schleuse Holtenau lock, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

Two container vessels passing one another on the lower Elbe River, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

Encounter between two container ships on Kiel Canal, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

Bulk cargo ship, bulk carrier or bulk freighter at the entrance to the Holtenau Canal, Nord-Ostsee-Kanal, Kiel Canal, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

Shipping container ships at Holtenau lock, Kiel Canal, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

Shipping traffic at the Holtenau lock, Kiel Canal, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

Branch of the Turkish Vakifbank in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe