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Prior to containerization, all products other than bulk commodities were moved piece by piece in break bulk. Not only was the freight handling slow, other modes of transport, such as railroads, basically added to the inefficiency. Moreover, the cargo was exposed to potential damage and pilferage. In 1956 the McLean Trucking Company started experiments with standardized boxes in an attempt to streamline a distribution system from shipper to consignee. The Ideal X, the first cargo ship carrying containers, sailed from Newark, New Jersey. This marked the first scheduled containership service in the world. Matson, another US pioneering company, started to experiment with containers in 1958 (Gilman 1977 and UNCTAD 1985).
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Notteboom, T. (2003). Thirty-five years of containerization in Antwerp and Rotterdam: structural changes in the container handling market. In: Loyen, R., Buyst, E., Devos, G. (eds) Struggling for Leadership: Antwerp-Rotterdam Port Competition between 1870 –2000. Contributions to Economics. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57485-6_8
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