Author: Ian Williams

A sentimental look at american decline and its affect on one of america's great cities. Has America outsourced its future? What is to become of our children raised in the ruins of the rust belt and other moldering hubs of former production?...

16 February, 2015 /

First Containership, Ideal-X, 1956 On April 26th 1956, the Ideal-X left the Port of Newark, New Jersey to the Port Houston, Texas, which it called 5 days later. It carried 58 35-feet (8 feet wide by 8 feet high) containers, along with a regular load of...

31 January, 2015 /

Until the 1950s, the ocean transport of general cargo generally relied on the very slow, labor intensive and expensive break-bulk method. Frustrated with this process, a young U.S. trucking entrepreneur, Malcolm McLean, decided to carry loaded trailer trucks directly onto ships. The container age began...

30 January, 2015 /