The waterborne transport of cargo packed into standardized intermodal shipping containers, carried aboard purpose-built container ships and transferred between ship, rail and road using the same container without unpacking the goods inside. Container shipping is the dominant mode for moving manufactured goods across oceans, since the standardized container lets cargo move seamlessly between ports and inland transport with far less handling than older break-bulk methods required.
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Core ConcernOcean carriage of cargo packed into standardized intermodal shipping containers. 1 Cargo or Passenger Connections
Exemplified By
The container ship is the defining vessel type of container shipping, narrower than its existing exemplifies edge to the broader Maritime Transport mode
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1. Wikipedia: Container ship
WikipediaIntroduction
A container ship (also called boxship or spelled containership) is a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization.
History
On April 26, 1956, the first of these rebuilt container vessels, Ideal X, left the Port Newark in New Jersey and a new revolution in modern shipping resulted.
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WikipediaLead sentence
Containerization, also referred as container stuffing or container loading, is a system of intermodal freight transport using intermodal containers.
Pioneered By: Malcom McLean, Lead paragraph
In 1955, former trucking company owner Malcom McLean worked with engineer Keith Tantlinger to develop the modern intermodal container.
In Group: Bulk, Tanker and Container Shipping Modes, Lead paragraph
Containerization, also referred as container stuffing or container loading, is a system of intermodal freight transport using intermodal containers.
View the Source MOL Maestro-class container ship (Wikipedia)
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The Maestro class is a series of 10 container ships originally built for Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and later operated by Ocean Network Express (ONE).
Maersk A-class container ship (Wikipedia)
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The A class is a series of 6 container ships built for Maersk Line.
Maersk C-class container ship (Wikipedia)
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The C class is a series of 8 container ships built for Maersk Line.
Maersk M-class container ship (Wikipedia)
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The M class is a series of 6 container ships built for Maersk Line.
Gudrun Maersk-class container ship (Wikipedia)
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The Gudrun class is a series of 6 container ships built for Maersk Line.
Sovereign Maersk-class container ship (Wikipedia)
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Sovereign class is a series of 9 container ships built for Maersk Line.
Maersk E-class container ship (Wikipedia)
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The E class comprises eight 14,770 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) container ships.
Evergreen Marine Corporation (Wikipedia)
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is a Taiwanese container transportation and shipping company
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