1. How are goods transported throughout the world?

2. Containerization
Conceived of in 1937 by Malcolm McLean, an American from North Carolina
He owned and operated the largest trucking company in the United States
Tried to come up with ways to be more efficient

3. Previously, cargo was broken down and put in the cargo hold
Break-Bulk cargo

4. McLean’s initial idea
He said the idea that gave birth to containerisation came to him one day in He had delivered a load of cotton bales to the port of Hoboken, for shipment abroad. In later life Mr McLean recalled the moment to American Shipper, a magazine:
I had to wait most of the day to deliver the bales, sitting there in my truck, watching stevedores load other cargo. It struck me that I was looking at a lot of wasted time and money. I watched them take each crate off a truck and slip it into a sling, which would then lift the crate into the hold of the ship. Once there, every sling had to be unloaded, and the cargo stowed properly. The thought occurred to me, as I waited around that day, that it would be easier to lift my trailer up and, without any of its contents being touched, put it on the ship.

5. Containers!
A container of goods can be moved from a railroad to a ship to a truck, without having to be unloaded and reloaded

7. Money involved with container shipping
The Panama Canal
Built in 1913 – opened in 1914
13 – 14 thousand ships a year travel traverse the canal
Two sets of locks
Gatun and
Pedro Miguel

8. Locks in the Canal

9. Panama Canal

12. Suez Canal
Completed in 1859
101 miles long

13. Suez Canal

14. London’s Gateway deepwater Port

16. Deep water ports in the U.S.

17. Seattle

18. Other uses

19. Freighters use the Northwest Passage
Nordic Orion

20. Friendly Floaties

21. Fowl Garbage

22. Map from North Pole

24. Sinking container ship