Leading lawyers in Australia have been briefed at an Australian Academy of Law event about the advent of the container revolution.
Documentary film-maker and maritime expert Martin Orchard gave an overview of the history of container shipping and container logistics. Starting with Malcolm McLean’s innovative experiment with the Ideal-X in 1956, Mr...
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You must have seen trucks on the roads, carrying long, corrugated metal boxes called “containers”. In fact, we routinely refer to these as “container trucks”. All these similar looking boxes are the same size and have some numbering on them — like some sort of a barcode. Their simple design, inexpensive construction and standardisation has changed the face of global trade.
But it was not always this way. Till the 1950s, cargo, which today goes into a container, was packed into boxes, bales,...