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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.
The Box. (Levinson book) 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 ...
A container for shipping weapons, with carrying handles Custom containers are used for shipments of products such as scientific instruments, weapons and aviation components. [9] Customized cushioning , blocking and bracing, carrying handles, lift rings, locks, etc. are common to facilitate handling and to protect the contents.
Early life. Todd Christopher Sampsell was born on March 7, 1971, in Florida, and was raised in South Carolina and Georgia. His parents divorced when he was two years old. His mother gained custody and married another man the following year. Later psychological reports found that Kohlhepp had an unhealthy relationship with his stepfather and often wanted to live with his biological father, whom ...
This article concerns the history of the company. The beginning of the A.P. Møller-Mærsk Group was the shipping company Dampskibsselskabet Svendborg, founded by captain Peter Mærsk-Møller and his son Arnold Peter Møller (2 October 1876 – June 1965) in Svendborg, 1904. A.P. Møller had four children, one of whom was Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller.
An intermodal container, often called a shipping container, or cargo container, (or simply “container”) is a large metal crate designed and built for intermodal freight transport, meaning these containers can be used across different modes of transport – such as from ships to trains to trucks – without unloading and reloading their cargo.
Dewey Decimal. 813/.54 20. LC Class. PS3566.R697 S4 1993. The Shipping News is a novel by American author E. Annie Proulx and published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1993. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, [1] the U.S. National Book Award, as well as other awards. [2] It was adapted as a film of the same name which was released in 2001.
The UK title is Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry the Brings you 90% of Everything; it was also released August 2013. George lived for five weeks aboard a shipping container ship to research her book on the shipping industry, and a week patrolling for pirates on a Portuguese navy frigate.