The box revolution 45 years on
CONTAINERISATION was 45 years old last Thursday. April 26 1956
saw the nature of global commercial trade in the free market change,
with the use of the first container by Sea Land at Port Newark,
in a far reaching revolution in the transport of goods by sea.
By moving cargo in large, standardised steel and aluminium containers,
rather than having longshoremen
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