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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 Transformation of Malcolm McLean's Retirement
Malcolm McLean's insight led him to a concept of containerization quite different from anything that had come before. He understood that reducing the cost of shipping goods required not just a metal box but an entire new way of handling freight. With numbers like that, the containers seem to have a future.
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