Containerization is the reason we have a thriving global marketplace, but where did it all begin? The idea of it was actually conjured up on a busy dock in Hoboken, New Jersey by a 24 year old truck ...

'Containerisation' of shipping cargo shaped your life in ways you can't even imagine. Development of the 'standard intermodal container' hugely reduced the expense of global trade - especially ...

For a short and very enjoyable history lesson, watch this Youtube video. It’s the story to a 1930s-era truck driver named Malcom McLean, who tired of sitting in the shipping port for days, waiting for ...

The revolution began quietly. On April 26, 1956, at a backwater terminal at Port Newark, N.J., a company owned by former trucker Malcom McLean loaded 58 specially strengthened truck trailers on the ...

On Oct. 6, 2009, the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University will host the 60th anniversary of the Harry E. Salzberg Memorial Program, an annual celebration of achievements in supply chain ...

Global Container Terminals (GCT) has announced the retirement of James J. Devine, President & CEO of GCT USA, at the end of June, 2014. Devine’s retirement brings a distinguished 13-year tenure with ...

Blockchain supply chain should have multi-trillion dollar impacts and containerization has had multi-trillion dollar impacts. Both improve the efficiency, speed and scale of trading. Both have made ...

1956 revolutionierte Malcom McLean mit dem Schiff „Ideal X“ den Gütertransport. So senkte seine Container-Idee die Ladekosten ...