After a lot of head scratching, I have finally found a new title for my book. It did take me a couple of days to find it and in the meantime, a lot of people suggested things to me, for which I am very grateful.

Some of the very good suggestions were:

• Containers on the Horizon
• Travel with Containers
• About Containers, Terminals and Travel
• Adventures with Containers
• Made in China, a Sea Travel Story
• Containers Above the Titanic
• Living among Steel, Around the world on a Container Ship
• Living with Time Zones, Around the world on a Container Ship
• Three Months Among Steel and 20 Men, Around the world on a Container Ship
• Time Travelling on Container Ships
• With Container Ships through Time and Space
• On the Fo’c’sle
• Time Zone Passage with the Galactic Star
• From Savannah to Singapore, Around the world on a Container Ship
• Well Contained
• 3000 containers and only one vessel – traveling the world by cargo ship
• Floating with freight – world travel by cargo ship

It’s clear from this list that times zones is a recurring theme. The title that I came up with had them in as well – Time Zones and Three Square Meals a Day, Around the World on a Container Ship.

I suggested it to Linda and she felt it was much better than my original title, but still lacked something. Then, yesterday afternoon, while I googled the word time zone for inspiration to find something that was associated with it, I had a brain wave.

Why didn’t I drop the subtitle (which had come into being to explain the word Ship Lag in the original title) and add the word Container? This would make – Time Zones, Containers and Three Square Meals a Day. I felt like I had struck gold with this and quickly send another email to Linda. This morning she told me she liked it very much.

So it’s official! My new book is called: Time Zones, Containers and Three Square Meals a Day