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Shipping Containers

Patented: History of Inventions

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Shipping Containers Stack Well on Ships

All shipping containers of the same size means aid, they stack very nicely on ships who can get more them. And also, these big things can be picked up by crane. As you can imagine, this did not go down well with all the longshore men and dock workers. They were right? Ye, of course they did. You know, he came up with s it's a relatively simple idea, which is, hat, let's have a standard bom makes the whole process much easier. The first ship that malcolm mc lane organized was called the s s ideal x,. He sailed it from port elizabeth, new jersey in 19 56. That was another really, really fundamental innovation

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