In MacLean’s steamboat company, On 26 April 1956, he has shipped 58 metal container boxes along with 15,000 tons of bulk petroleum from Port Newark to Port Houston in the USA. Later individual goods were bundled using ropes to ease the cargo handling, yet no logical system was presented. Since this process is labor-intensive ships had to spend hours in ports for cargo loading and unloading, consuming times with the risk of accidents, thefts, and losses. Each individual good packed in barrels, sacks, and crates had to load and unload separately as the only known loading and unloading technique was break- bulk shipping. The oxford learners dictionary has given the definition fo containerization as “the process of packing and transporting things in containers (= large metal or wooden boxes for transporting goods on ships, trains, etc.)” History of Containerizationīack in thousand years shipping goods was not easy. Stuffing cargo in a container for transportation is called containerization.
There are different shipbuilding companies for ship construction and the largest container vessel in the fleet can carry up to 24,000 TEUs. Day by day large container vessels add to the world vessel fleet by shipping lines to cater to the demand for containerized cargo. More than 60% of the sea freight is containerized cargo.
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