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The Ideal X and the question of who was first in containerization

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Wikipedia: SS Ideal X
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During her first voyage in her new configuration, on 26 April 1956, the Ideal X carried 58 containers from Port Newark, New Jersey, to Port of Houston, Texas, where 58 trucks were waiting to be loaded with the containers.
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