🇺🇲 Malcolm McLean was an American businessman who invented the modern intermodal shipping container

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Malcolm McLean (1913 – 2001) was an American businessman and transportation industry innovator. He is best known for revolutionizing global trade by introducing the standardized intermodal shipping container in the 1950s. This innovation significantly lowered the cost and time required for loading and unloading cargo from ships to other modes of transportation, leading to the modern containerization system that is integral to today's global shipping industry. McLean's contribution had a profound impact on international trade and played a crucial role in shaping the modern logistics landscape

until the nineteen sixties nearly all the world's cargo was transported in a diverse assortment of barrels boxes

bags crates and drums

a typical ship in the pre container era contained as many as two hundred thousand individual pieces of cargo that were inefficiently loaded onto the ship by hand

this practice kept the cost of shipping very high

enter malcolm mclean

born in nineteen thirteen and maxed in north carolina mclean lack of funds for college and begin working as a truck driver for his siblings company

in nineteen thirty seven while making a routine delivery to report mclean separate hours watching dozens of doc hands look thousands of small packages onto his ship and began to ponder more productive alternatives

at first he considered loading entire trucks aren't ships in nineteen fifty two however mclean modified his original plan to include just truck containers which could then be stacked that was the origin of the modern day shipping container

in nineteen fifty six mclean started his own shipping company using his containers to offer transport prices that were much lower than those of it's competitors

by nineteen sixty six mclean launched his earth transatlantic service and three years later he started a transpacific shipping line

as the advantages of mclean container system became clear his company evolve to include bigger ships more sophisticated containers and larger crane slowed cargo

the development of container as asian in the nineteen fifties made the loading and unloading of ships roughly twenty times faster dramatically lower and cost and revolutionizing international trade

because of mclean consumers aro hiund the world can now access goods much more cheaply and this in turn has helped boost the living standards for billions of people around the world

it is for these reasons that malcolm mclean  is our seventeen hero of progress
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