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Containerisation and global supply chains

Containerisation and global supply chains

It was in 1937, when waiting to drop off a load of wool at port in Hoboken, New Jersey, that Malcolm McLean is said to have conceived an idea that transformed the transport of goods, writes Robert Wright.

McLean, a lifelong entrepreneur, had to wait most of the day to deliver the wool bales in his truck. He sat watching stevedores unloading trucks, putting bales into slings and hoisting them piece by piece on to vessels.

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