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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger is a non-fiction book by Marc Levinson charting the historic rise of the intermodal container (shipping container) and how it changed the economic landscape of the global economy. [1] [2] The New York Times called it "a smart, engaging book". [3]
Irena McLean. . (m. 1993–2001) . Children. 3 (with first wife) Malcom Purcell McLean (November 14, 1913 – May 25, 2001) [1] was an American businessman who invented the modern intermodal shipping container, which revolutionized transport and international trade in the second half of the twentieth century.
A shipping container is a container with strength suitable to withstand shipment, storage, and handling. Shipping containers range from large reusable steel boxes used for intermodal shipments to the ubiquitous corrugated boxes. In the context of international shipping trade, "container" or "shipping container" is virtually synonymous with ...
Mediterranean Shipping Company. Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A., branded as MSC, is an international shipping line founded by Gianluigi Aponte in Italy in 1970. The company is owned by the Aponte family with its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, since 1978. [4] It is the world's largest container shipping company by both fleet size and ...
Intermodal container. A 40-foot-long (12.2 m) shipping container. Each of its eight corners has an essential corner casting for hoisting, stacking, and securing. Containers stacked on a large ship. An intermodal container, often called a shipping container, or cargo container, (or simply “container”) is a large metal crate designed and ...
US$29.80 billion (2022) [2] Number of employees. 14,248 [2] Website. hapag-lloyd.com. Hapag-Lloyd AG is a German international shipping and container transportation company, the 4th biggest in the world. [3] It was formed in 1970 through a merger of Hamburg-American Line (HAPAG) and Norddeutscher Lloyd. [4] Hapag-Lloyd 40ft container.
The name is an acronym of two predecessor companies, Compagnie Maritime d'Affrètement (CMA) and Compagnie Générale Maritime (CGM), translating as "Maritime Freighting Company" and "General Maritime Company", respectively. The company is headquartered at the CMA CGM Tower in Marseille, France, [ 8 ] and is the third largest container shipping ...
Container ships are a common means of commercial intermodal freight transport and now carry most seagoing non-bulk cargo. Container ship capacity is measured in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). Typical loads are a mix of 20-foot (1-TEU) and 40-foot (2-TEU) ISO-standard containers, with the latter predominant.