Is the container the most important invention of the last 100 years?

Lloyd's List: The Shipping Podcast by Lloyd's List

Aug 10, 202600:14:15News & Politics

IN 1956 the SS Ideal X sailed from New Jersey to Houston with 58 containers on board, marking the birth of modern commercial container shipping. Malcom McClean’s vision of unitized, efficient and relatively cheap global...

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