Malcom McLean (1914-2001) is credited as the inventor of containerized shipping and the founder of the Sea-Land Corporation, US Lines, and Trailer Bridge. 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Containerization is a system of intermodal cargo transport using standard ISO containers (also known as isotainers) that can be loaded on container ships, railroad cars, and trucks. ... Sea-Land Corporation was a United States shipping company that pioneered containerization. ...
He started out in the trucking industry as an owner-operator and later turned McLean Trucking into the 2nd largest trucking company in United States prior to be forced to divest his interest when he purchased a shipping compnay. Mr. McLean came up with the idea for standard sized containers that could be quickly loaded and unloaded while waiting for his truck full of cotton bales to be unloaded. His thought was why don't they just pickup the entire truck and put on the boat instead of the centuries old method of Break Bulk Shipping. This page is a candidate to be copied to Wiktionary using the Transwiki process. ... The driver of this DAF tractor with an auto-transport semi-trailer prepares to offload Skoda Octavia cars in Cardiff, Wales For other meanings, see Truck (disambiguation). ... Cotton plant as imagined and drawn by John Mandeville in the 14th century Cotton is a soft fiber that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant (Gossypium spp. ...
McLean soon began hauling dirt, produce, and other odds and ends for the farming community in Maxton, where reliable transportation was hardly commonplace.
McLean patented a steel-reinforced corner-post structure, which allowed the trailers to be gripped for loading from their wheeled platforms and provided the strength needed for stacking.
McLean also needed to persuade port authorities to redesign their dockyards to accommodate the lifting and storage of trailers, and he needed to rapidly expand the scope of his operations to ensure a steady and reliable revenue stream.
McLean was named "Man of the Century" by the International Maritime Hall of Fame.
McLean secured a bank loan for $22 million and in January 1956 bought two World War II T-2 tankers, which he converted to carry containers on and under deck.
McLean also developed non-maritime inventions, including a means of lifting a patient from a stretcher onto a hospital bed.
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