What has Aurich got to do with Papenburg and
the ships built on the Meyerwerft? And what has a mechanic from the
Philippines or an Australian sheep-farmer got to do with somebody working in
Aurich at the Elektrotechnische Werke Janssen?
Where do cruise liners sail,
how much is a holiday cruise, what is offered on bord, how luxurious are they?
What have towns like
Papenburg/Emsland and Fremantle/Australia in common? And how are 125,000 sheep
from the Australian Outback shipped to Arabic destinations, alive to be
slaughtered there according to Islamic rules.
Where is the connection
to the East Frisian ship-company Frisia and their pride, the catamaran "Cat
I", sailing for example from Emden to Borkum or Helegoland?
There are many links in the long
chain of global knots - and Aurich with the Elektrotechnische Werke Janssen is
just one of them, Papenburg's Meyerwerft another one, and so is an Australian
roadtrain trucking sheep to Fremantle. Call it globalization -
