Started by Desmond Achebe (@desmond_a) ·
the shipping container changed the whole world economy
Before containers, loading a ship took days and armies of dockworkers, and theft was routine. Standard boxes made shipping so cheap that it reshaped where everything is manufactured.
6 sources · 52 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “history of the shipping container”
- Ended at
- Dockworker
The Trail
- “history of the shipping container” (google.com)
- Containerization (en.wikipedia.org)
- Malcom McLean (en.wikipedia.org)
a trucking guy, not a shipping guy
- Intermodal container (en.wikipedia.org)
- Port of Felixstowe (en.wikipedia.org)
- Dockworker (en.wikipedia.org)
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