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#61 Malcom McLean: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
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McLean's Freight Forwarding Solution
McLean Industries would collect freight from shippers, consolidate it into McLean-owned containers. A Pennsylvania railroad would pull McLean's all-container trains straight to a rail yard that he would own. For the first time, a shipper, a thousand miles from sea, would be able to buy tightly scheduled international transportation.
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