It is hard to imagine life in the 1950s. Many things have changed in every aspect of life, not restricted to transportation. One area that is especially interesting related to transportation is the development of containerization and the idea of intermodal transportation. The idea of using containers to transport goods has been around since 1792, when the British and French used wooden containers and transferred them between railcars and horse drawn buggies. Around 1953, Malcolm McLean, a trucking businessman from North Carolina , began thinking about how he could better transport his goods. McLean was concerned about the time it was taking to deliver goods and also highway congestion. He was also worried that tucking would be overlooked …show more content…
There was great deal of time wasted in every avenue of transportation by merely waiting, waiting for ships to arrive and waiting for crews to load and unload.
Malcolm McLean knew that container shipping was the way to go and he spent his life focused on the container shipping trade. He could see that it would be easier and more economical, by being able to ship more at one time. Whereas McLean initially thought that driving a truck straight onto the ship was the way to go, in 1955 he realized that he could make container shipping even more economical by removing the container from the truck itself. By taking this action, he was able to save a third of the space that was taken up by wheels and creating the ability to stack containers. This motivated McLean to find ways to increase the container load on the ships.
On April 26, 1956, the first container shipment of 100 containers, aboard Ideal-X launched from Newark, New Jersey and traveled to Houston, Texas. Ideal-X was originally a T-2, tanker ship. The containers were placed above deck on the ship. During the period from April to December, 1956, there were 44 container shipments, each carrying approximately 58 containers.
Malcolm McLean brought Keith Tantlinger, a renowned container expert, onboard to his company. It was Tantlinger’s job to increase the number of containers a
Transportation is one of the most important necessities for humans. Without it, traveling, economic activity, and mobility would not be done as quickly or efficiently. Transportation is the act of moving something from one place to another. We need transportation because of all life’s necessities and pleasures. The key to the salt business was transportation and luckily for Joy Morton, his company was, “founded on a transportation idea”(Kurlansky pg.426).
It was nice to be California last week, enjoying the nice weather before summer descends upon us in the Sunny South. At the meeting, Kome Ajise, with CalTrans, provided an overview of the challenges in addressing freight by the public sector. His most striking comment was the definition of a “Freight Project” developed by their Freight Advisory Council:
Service expanded outside Seattle in 1919 when Merchants Parcel bought Oakland, California‑based Motor Parcel Delivery. By 1930 the company, which had been renamed United Parcel Service, served residents in New York City (its headquarters
This article does not address the issue of external bene®ts arising through the transportation of
It all started with a man that goes by Malcolm McLean who was born in 1913 in Maxton, North Carolina. Malcolm started out by pumping gas at a local gas station to where he saved up enough money to buy him a truck. From there he created McLean Trucking company, involving his own family members and as Malcolm as one of the drivers they hauled empty tobacco barrels as their first cargo. Since his only pick-up truck in 1934 to 1770 trucks and 32 terminals in 1956, McLean Trucking became the second largest trucking company in the United States, and the first trucking company to appear on the stock exchange. Though all of his success early on, Malcolm sold his interest in his company and wanted to try something different. The idea of transporting trucks on ships during World War II was around but Malcolm
1. What are the most significant factors affecting the attractiveness of the container shipping industry?
A container can hold a wide variety of freight while in its working life. Spills or contamination might have happened on the inside surfaces and will have to be cleaned before habitation. Ideally, the paint on every internal surface should be removed to bare metal and re-painted with a non-toxic paint product. In addition, chemicals released from paint and sealants used in manufacture of the shipping container might be harmful.
Intermodal’s value proposition for shippers centers around the concept of using multiple, coordinated and highly-managed transportation and distribution services. These services consist of off-dock and terminal drayage, ocean container to domestic equipment transloading, rail linehaul and destination drayage to effect efficient, cost-effective and risk-managed supply chains. The development of
Newco Cruise will build two “Ultra Ships” for the North American and European cruise markets, capitalizing on an attractive green field opportunity created by a) recent strategic developments by legacy players, and b) the depressed condition of shipyard order books.
Multinational businesses reorganized production to take advantage of these opportunities. Labor intensive production migrated to areas with lower labor costs, later followed by other functions as skill levels increased. In 1956 the creation of containerized shipping
The future of transportation will most likely be very different to current transportation systems. Current projections say that the world 's crude oil supply will be gone by 2070. The demand for alternative options of transportation methods is increasing at a rapid rate. These new opportunities are expected to bring new modes of transportation and transportations services in the coming years. Some of these new modes include electric cars, nuclear cars, hydrogen vehicles, and autonomous vehicles. All of these new transportation ideas will make a profound effect of the world as we know it today. All of these new ideas will reduce pollution in the world and lower are dependence on fossil fuels.
Stevedores is a port terminal operator that expanded into new markets to replicate their expertise in terminal operations and to diversify their revenue geographically (Jean-Paul Rodrigue, 2010). The Hong Kong based Hutchison Port Holdings is the worlds largest container operator, handling in 2014 more than 82 million TEU (Twenty Foot Equivalent Units), a 6% growth rate in volume in comparison with 2013 (Linton Nightingale, 2015).
4.Why Meli Marine choose to deepen its vessel operations rather than developing the container shipping value chain?
He went further to hold that parties were free to define their obligations as regards ‘loading’; and that in the case before him the carrier’s had obligations which began
They result in the following environmental threats like greenhouse effect, acidification, over-fertilization and depletion of the ozone layer.