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Keith Walton Tantlinger (March 22, 1919 – August 27, 2011) was a mechanical engineer and inventor. As Vice President of Engineering at the Fruehauf Trailer Corporation his inventions played a major role in containerization. [1] Working with a Fruehauf customer, Malcom McLean, they spearheaded the container ship revolution in the 1950s ...
Malcom Purcell McLean (November 14, 1913 – May 25, 2001) was an American businessman who invented the modern intermodal shipping container, which revolutionized transport and international trade in the second half of the twentieth century.
An intermodal container, often called a shipping container, or cargo container, (or simply “container”) is a large metal crate designed and built for intermodal freight transport, meaning these containers can be used across different modes of transport – such as from ships to trains to trucks – without unloading and reloading their cargo.
Containers, also known as intermodal containers or ISO containers because the dimensions have been defined by ISO, are the main type of equipment used in intermodal transport, particularly when one of the modes of transportation is by ship. Containers are 8-foot (2.4 m) wide by 8-foot (2.4 m) or 9-foot-6-inch (2.90 m) high.
Containerization is a system of intermodal freight transport using intermodal containers (also called shipping containers, or ISO containers). Containerization, also referred as container stuffing or container loading, is the process of unitization of cargoes in exports.
ISO 668 – Series 1 freight containers – Classification, dimensions and ratings is an ISO international standard which nominally classifies intermodal freight shipping containers, and standardizes their sizes, measurements and weight specifications.
Hapag-Lloyd AG is a German international shipping and container transportation company, the 4th biggest in the world. It was formed in 1970 through a merger of Hamburg-American Line (HAPAG) and Norddeutscher Lloyd .
Container ports by TEU throughput in 2010. List of ports of the United States ranked by tonnage. Container on barge on the Mississippi and tributaries. List of world's busiest container ports.
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. Container ships are a common means of commercial intermodal freight transport and now carry most seagoing non-bulk cargo.
Container ship: Tonnage: 220,940 GT; 99,155 NT; 199,629 DWT; Displacement: 265,876 t (261,677 long tons) Length: 399.94 m (1,312 ft 2 in) Beam: 58.8 m (192 ft 11 in) Draught: 14.5 m (47 ft 7 in) (design) 16.0 m (52 ft 6 in) (maximum) Depth: 32.9 m (107 ft 11 in) Installed power: Mitsui–MAN B&W 11G95ME-C9 (59,300 kW) Propulsion