in ship retired from the second on wall was rechristened the SS ideal X on her first voyage she left Port Newark New Jersey five days later she rife Houston Texas on board with 58 large metal boxes today we would call them contain this in Texas they were loaded onto 58 trucks west of various destinations it was the birth modern container shipping the I this seems so simple today get it revolutionized the shipping industry I'm with it the global supply chain globalization as we understand it today simply would never have existed without it this is what a poor looks like before containerization this is so not collapse in Jakarta even today many pools don't have the facilities to accommodate large container vessels with the dockside equipment to unload boxes and speed for this is how modern port looks today metal containers have transformed the loading process boxes a move on and off since by special cranes in a matter of minutes from the port side that transferred to rail from container ships for getting bigger and bigger today the largest transport not 50 8 metal boxes but up to 18,000 some shit 400 meters long and fifty-nine meters wide the only constraint is the size of the port and the width of the Malacca Strait maybe think about globalization you think about world trade as it exists today with the ability to source products from all over the world the ability to manufacture and produce and locations without transport costs being a huge obstacle I mean that this is is the miracle that that that containerization is brought about the ability to move things around without having to really worry about cost without contains China wouldn't be the factory in the world contains don't only transport finished goods these days supply chain saw ever more complex components can be shipped from multiple countries assembled in China or elsewhere and somehow America have been major battles over the size it contains at first there were dozens of incompatible sizes gradually the industry has agreed standards these days most big boxes 20 of 40 feet long something like ninety percent all non Bo cargo is transported container ships altogether contain the boxes make some 200 million germans year 2008 the BBC painted it contains in the special livery and tracked his movements with the GPS system its first consignment was whiskey transported from a Glasgow bottling plant to show on in Shanghai it was reloaded with cosmetics gardening tools and take measures from there the BBC box went to Los Angeles by Yokohama travel by rail and road to Pennsylvania was loaded with Inc spearmint flavoring polyester fiber when it was sent to the pool to Santos in Brazil after that among other destinations the container when on supports it Singapore Bangkok right here in Hong Kong sounds like crazy right fact couldn't have been David Melling Financial Times