This dimension groups transport infrastructure by the era in which it was completed. Wikipedia describes infrastructure as "the set of facilities and systems that serve a country, city, or other area," and each piece of it belongs to the period that actually built it. Browsing by completion era shows which projects were contemporaries, even across different modes.
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Era of Emergence 2000s
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1. Wikipedia: Containerization
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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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