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Containers
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The Cranes of the Port of Vinam
By the peak of se land's business in vinam it probably accounted for close to half of sea land's businessi akes only seven. And what's really wild is that the oakland side of the operation is still standing, if not still working. The cranes that loaded the cargo being sent to cameron bay are right there in the outer harbor. I wanted to see them, to stand under them. They're the same to day, just larger and more advanced. This whole system is what people mean when they say containerisationa what containeriation allowed was trade at a ridiculous, sterous, global economy reshaping scale. About 500 million tons of stuff moved around the
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