Happy 50th Birthday to the Shipping Container!
It was 50 years ago that the first "containers" packed with cargo shipped on a freighter from Newark, New Jersey to Houston. The containers were converted truck bodies which allowed shippers to pack, truck, ship and unload freight in an economical and efficient way.
The result may have been globalization and an international economy, with all that is bad and objectionable to standardization. But it has also meant that wine importers, amongst others, can get products all over America. Shipping in containers, in our case refrigerated containers, has become the only way to transport wine and allows a case of wine to arrive in New York City or San Francisco at a sum of money not much higher that it costs to ship from Burgundy to Paris.
No one ever thinks of the shipping container as a major invention, but it is amazing to think how it has totally altered international commerce.
On a related note, my mother has been responding well to Mestinon to treat her Myasthenia Gravis, now that her doctors have a diagnosis, and is slowly improving. My thanks for all the notes I received from everyone out there.
anybody seen my people?
anyone read that article about the chinese human trafficker living in nyc in the new yorker a couple of weeks ago? now that's creative use of containers...
anybody seen my people?
your people! they're my people! where were you at the red sea? i've had it with them. golden calf, cowboy songs, bunch of bs. i never should have left that wicker basket. 40 years in the desert. should have been 440!
yea, the red sea. boy was i glad i had flood insurance.
Your people went with the carpenter!
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