Episode
How Do They Do It?: Overnight Parcel Delivery, Coal Mining
Overview
Discover how packages are shipped worldwide in less than 24 hours; mining enough coal to feed the world's power stations.
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 2008-03-07
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Overnight Parcel Delivery, Coal Mining is Episode 5 in Season 5 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2008-03-07. The runtime is 22 min.
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