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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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The Importance of Intuition in the Container Age

In the early 1970s, Malcolm McLean was trying to establish himself as a leader in container shipping. A government report declared that such longstanding ports as Boston and San Francisco would have to find other roles in the container age. "We're going to see that his hard charging nature, the way he was aggressive" benefited him all the way up until the point it did not,.

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