Who was the inventor of the container?

The inventor of the container is Malcolm mclean, an American truck driver. 1946, he successfully developed and invented the container transportation of goods, which was widely used in automobile, railway, ship and plane transportation. He was once listed by Forbes as one of 10 people who changed the world since 1950.

In 2000, McClane was named "the great man of the century" by the International Maritime Hall of Fame and "the father of container transportation" by his peers.

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Malcolm McLean (1915-2001) was the owner of a transportation company in the United States in the 1940s.

1955, he bought Panhe Daxize Company, and began to pay attention to the reality of his invention, transforming the oil tanker in the company into a large metal box for storing and transporting goods, which is the prototype of modern containers.

1956 On April 16, his first container fleet' Ideal 6' sailed out of the port, and the history of world storage and transportation quietly turned a new page.

When containers are used for storage and transportation, the loading and unloading time of the terminal is greatly shortened, from a few days to several hours, the storage and transportation volume of each ship is increased by six times, and the freight transportation time from the United States to Europe is fully reduced by four weeks.

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