2. That box nothing showy within which is transported
goods around the world, is serving 50 years of
invented.
This has meant a great revolution within the business
world.
The container
3. How the container transformed international trade?
How Malcom McLean developed the container and
was its maximum promoter?
How this innovation progressed from intermittent
mode?
Why has become today in a bastion at a global scale?
What you learn in the book?
4. The container not only facilitated the transport. It also
allowed to business send capital abroad. This change
reversed years of labor grievances achieved by workers
from North America, Europe and Japan.
Before the container, working conditions improved
steadily: fewer hours of work, better salaries and a lower
retirement age.
How the container transformed
international trade
5. McLean decided to design the most suitable housing for
the transport (light and aluminum) and solve the
problems of loading and unloading. His first boat full of
containers it departed from Port Newark, New Jersey,
on 26 April 1956.
In 1959, the transport industry chose some definitive
measures for the housing. The Containers measured 20
or 40 feet long, 8 feet high and eight wide
How Malcom McLean developed the
container and was its maximum
promoter?
6. The container turned out to be a force as dynamic, that
practically no aspect of the economy of the that played
was without change. The changes, most of the times,
were not as predicted.
The Containers allow the loading and unloading of
goods to be faster and with fewer people, which would
change the cost structure of the industry
How this innovation progressed from
intermittent mode?