How did you change the world for "container"?

ByPhil Parker

Mass-produced items such as clothing and electric appliances are transported across the sea by the "container" across the world. Most of the clothes and foods usually wearing casual wear are transported by a container ship as long as it is produced abroad, but because there are not many opportunities to actually see a transport ship, why containers are used You may not think too much until you say "What is it?" It summarizes the mechanism of distribution by such a container and what was the revolutionary idea that the container had influenced around the world.

How Shipping Container Changed the World
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A Hong Kong express transport ship will anchor at the container terminal "Altenwerder" of Hamburg Port for 33 hours. Transport ships are 1,200 ft (from the bow to stern) with a huge thing with a width of 157 feet (about 47 m), and the maximum loading capacity is 10 000 at the "20 ft container" of the ISO standard, Up to 3167 items. Altenwerder's custom-made crane can raise and lower 150 containers per hour. Because it is unified by international standard containers, any ship can pack cargo into a container and transport it to any port in the world.

ByAna Ulin

The Hong Kong Express transport ship leaving Hamburg Port in the middle of April leaves the Elbe river 70 miles down to the North Sea. Heading to Southampton port in the southern part of England at 25 mph per hour, we arrive in Singapore one month later and arrive at Pusan, Korea in early June. Next in Shanghai · ChinaNingbo(Ningbo) ·Shenzhen Special CityWe will return to Singapore at the end. In just less than two months, this ship has traveled a total of 12,500 miles (about 20116 km) and calls at eleven ports throughout the world. By tracing this route four to five times a year, you can carry a load of 1.4 million tons a year. This amount is equivalent to 1.8 billion units when converted to iPad.

With the introduction of containers, it has become possible to deliver large quantities of goods, and now every cargo is delivered worldwide at low cost. Containers are managed one by one in the system, and an efficient transport route from the point to the point is calculated. In 2014, a total of 560 million 20-foot containers were shipped throughout the world, totaling 1.5 billion tons. Petroleum, steel, coal etc. are specialBulky cargo shipAlthough it is carried in, other clothes, cars, computers, etc. which account for 90% of all others are said to be being transported in containers.

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Transportation of containers is not merely to carry from a port to a port with a large ship but a truck that carries containers packed with luggage to the main port at the mooring of the ship, a feeder that transports from the main port to the port of each place There is a very complicated process involving a lot of people, such as ship, crane driver who raises and lowering containers at port, customs inspector, railway transportation of container if there is container rail transport .... However, due to the uniformity of the container, work can be done smoothly.

Trucks and trains are designed to transport containers of international standards and cranes are made to quickly raise and lower containers of the same size. As a result of these accumulations, for example, the time it takes for clothing made in a factory in China to reach the hands of European customers is around 35 days, the transportation cost per shirt is also kept at only 1 cents (about 1.2 yen) or less It is done.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Transportation Logistics CenterMr. James Rice expressed this efficient transportation as "only the place where the ship, the bed and the container are necessary for container transport". "As for the manufacturer," where and where to produce "is not a problem because the shipping cost is suppressed," he told about the fact that the container realized the globalization of the manufacturing industry.

The first cargo transported by container in the world was on April 26, 1956, and Mr. Malcolm McLean of the American who invented the container. As various containers began introducing custom-made containers at the same time as containers appeared, there was a problem that containers of different companies could not be loaded with cranes. Container standardization was done inFederal Maritime BureauIn 1961, federation subsidies were issued for vessels using 10, 20, 30, and 40 feet containers. A few years later, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standardized the design of containers, so if we introduced a corresponding crane, it was possible to raise and lower cargo at any port.

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Due to Mr. McLean 's idea, by the mid - 1980 mid - term shipping cost between Asia and North America is less than half, the cost of transportation is still continuing. At first glance the influence that a simple container "container" gave to the world is immeasurable, but Bill Gates also said "Seven books remembered in 2013"In one volume, Mr. Malcolm McLean and the future of the container"Container Story - It was the invention of "box" that changed the world"Mr. Gates said," My view on container has changed completely. "

The container story is also on sale at Amazon. There are many posts of 5 stars in the review column, "It is a traditionally customary harbor custom, logistics inefficiency, and accordingly it is a manufacturing base and circulation base that can not help but solidify around the port. Containers that have changed the world economy including such things may not be an exaggeration to say that "(hidden) invention of the 20th century," when considering its influence and economic effect"The mystery was solved as to why the green maritime container written "EVERGREEN" running throughout the city was also funnyIt is said that such as.

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