According to an article published in the Wired, today is the date when containerization was born as the first every containership set sails from Newark, New Jersey on this date in 1956
- The converted tanker Ideal X with its specially fitted deck carried 58 cargo-laden truck-trailers.
- It was the brainchild of North Carolina businessman Malcolm McLean, who bought a second-hand truck in 1934 and built it into a fleet of nearly 1,800 trucks, the largest in the South and the fifth-largest in the...
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