History of Ocean Containers
By Splatty • Feb 10th, 2006 • Category: Seafreight
For you history buffs, the San Francisco Chronicle recently featured an interesting article regarding the history of ocean containers.
It was 50 years ago that Malcom McLean, an entrepreneur from North Carolina, loaded a ship with 58 35-foot containers and sailed from Newark, N.J., to Houston. He wasn’t the only one to suggest that containers might make shipping more efficient. But he was the first to design a transportation system around the packaging of cargo in huge metal boxes that could be loaded and unloaded by cranes.
Read the article in it’s entirety here.
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I’m ehsan ehsani, author of http://www.supplychainer.com .I always enjoy reading your posts.
If you are interested in related histories, there is one about RFID as well published by AIM.
The link is:
http://www.aimglobal.org/technologies/ rfid/resources/shrouds_of_time.pdf
By the way, I’ll be happy if you drop me your email so that I can contact you.
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