This page groups transport networks in the atlas by the kind of network they are, such as a rail, road or airline network. A transport network is a network or graph in geographic space describing an infrastructure that permits and constrains movement or flow, and examples include road networks, railways, air routes and pipelines.
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1. Wikipedia: Containerization
WikipediaContainerization, SS Ideal X voyage, Freight and Logistics Networks subcategoryQuote, Containerization, SS Ideal X voyage, Freight and Logistics Networks subcategory
The first truly successful container shipping company dates to April 26, 1956, when American trucking entrepreneur McLean put 58 trailer vans later called containers, aboard a refitted tanker ship, the SS Ideal X, and sailed them from Newark, New Jersey, to Houston, Texas.
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