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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 finally arrived.

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 six on narrow-bottomed rail cars to transport freight.

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 cargoes?