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04 Feb Mitt Romney: China is a currency manipulator; impose tariffs & start a trade war
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31 Jan The First Container Ship
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...
30 Jan The Maiden Voyage.
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...