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All thirteen pages, and the four sections they sit in
A register is the right shape for this page and the wrong shape for the front one.
| Page | Section |
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| Everything that had to change around the box Malcom McLean's Ideal X sailed from Newark in April 1956, and the interesting part is the decade of cranes, yards and contracts that followed. | Everything that had to change around the box |
| Why the standard was the hard part Corner castings and dimensions had to be agreed internationally before a box loaded in one country could be lifted in another. | Everything that had to change around the box |
| TEU is a unit of account, not a box Capacity is counted in twenty-foot equivalents, which is why the figures rarely match the boxes you can see. | Everything that had to change around the box |
| The crane that had to be invented Ship-to-shore gantries did not exist and had to be designed around the box, the ship's beam and the quay's bearing capacity. | The crane that had to be invented |
| Elizabeth, and the piers that emptied Container terminals needed deep water and enormous flat land, which is why the traffic left the old finger piers. | The crane that had to be invented |
| The yard, seen from height A terminal is a storage problem: every box must be reachable in a known number of moves. | The crane that had to be invented |
| Twistlock, lashing rod, and the hand that fits them Securing a stack at sea is still manual work done at height in weather. | The crane that had to be invented |
| The same box, lifted without being opened Intermodal is the whole point of the standard, and it is where most of the cost and most of the delay actually sit. | The same box, without opening it |
| Drayage, and the last thirty miles The road leg between terminal and warehouse is short, expensive and the usual bottleneck. | The same box, without opening it |
| The bill of lading, which is older than any of it A document that is simultaneously a receipt, a contract and a title to the goods — and the reason a container can be sold while at sea. | The same box, without opening it |
| Panama's 2016 locks, and the ships that no longer fit The expansion redefined the size classes, and the ships built for the old locks became a category of their own. | The water ran out before the shipyards did |
| Suez, and the depth that decides everything Canal draught limits do more to shape ship design than any shipyard's ambition. | The water ran out before the shipyards did |
| The water ran out before the shipyards did Ships passed twenty thousand TEU and the constraint moved to berths, cranes and channel depth rather than to construction. | The water ran out before the shipyards did |