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In short, with the development of container transport and the modernization of management, container transport will develop in the direction of logistics centers, scientific management, efficient ports and large ships. Containerization will further reduce transportation costs, shorten transportation cycles, improve transportation quality, and better realize providing customers with high-quality, on-time, convenient and...

In the early 1980s, some industrial regions appeared just-in-time production (just-in-time) manufacturing model, just-in-time is a concept proposed by the Japanese Toyota Motor Corporation, refers to the clearance of inventory to improve production quality and processing efficiency. This manufacturing model soon spread around the world.

The 1st decade of containerized ocean transportation development was in the United States. Containers obliterated thousands of jobs on the docks and fundamentally changed the geographic distribution of commercial development. The speed with which containers took over global trade routes shocked the world, and some of the world's largest port cities soon...

The process of standardization has been moving forward slowly. Eventually, the non-standard shapes and sizes of containers that had hindered the path of containerization gave way to accepted international standards, and it was not until 1966 that truckers, shipping companies, railroads, container manufacturers and governments finally agreed.The new era of marine transportation...

The visionary considered using "an unloadable enclosed automatic truck body as a standard unit container with the ability to use a crane to transfer between trains, pallets, warehouses and ships. "The first to adopt this idea was the New York Central, who invented steel containers in about 1920, placed in rows of...

In those days, dock transportation was in a difficult position, with inefficient transportation, expensive cargo handling, and increasing competition for dockworker jobs. The way to reduce cargo loading costs was obvious, so why not load cargo into large containers simply by moving them around instead of repeatedly loading and unloading large bulk...

The emergence of containers makes the global transportation of goods cheaper, more convenient and faster. Mr. Mark Levinson is a veteran expert in the field of containerization for many years. In order to make more people in the container industry understand the development of containerization, the excerpt of THE BOX book part...