“Cargo Containerization: A Sea Change in Global Freight Transportation”

Modern containerization began on 26 April, 1956, when Malcom McLean, a successful interstate trucker, loaded 58 trailer-sized boxes carrying paying cargo onto a modified tanker in Port Newark, NJ. In one long generation containerization grew into the smoothly integrated intermodal freight transportation system that now sustains a vastly expanded global economy. Three historical accounts of this new world-altering transportation system were published in 2006. This paper outlines the topics and themes they address and suggests new directions for the history of containerization.

• Corporate Authors:

  World Conference on Transport Research Society

  Secretariat, 14 Avenue Berthelot
  69363 Lyon cedex 07,   France 
• Authors:
  • Donovan, Arthur
• Conference:
  • 11th World Conference on Transport Research
  • Location: Berkeley CA, United States
  • Date: 2007-6-24 to 2007-6-28
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Pagination: 11p
• Monograph Title: 11th World Conference on Transport Research

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Container terminals; Containerization; Freight traffic; Freight transportation; Intermodal terminals; Intermodal transportation; Sustainable development; Sustainable transportation; Urban goods movement
• Identifier Terms: Port Newark (New Jersey)
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Marine Transportation; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01130339
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 19 2009 9:28AM