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What is Container Ship?
What is Container Ship?
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Container Ship

• The container ship or Boxship is the great
  success story of the last 40 years. General cargo
  was historically carried in dry cargo vessels,
  without any particular specialization. Cargo
  loading and unloading was always a low laborious
  task, due to the varying shapes, sizes, weights
  and fragility of the numerous cargoes being
  carried on any one vessel. The idea of
  standardizing the carrying box, or container at
  20 feet long was a breakthrough that allowed for
  vessels to be designed to lift, stack and store
  these specific shapes.

In 1937, a New Jersey truck driver named Malcolm
McLean, sitting in his truck at the New Jersey
Docks suddenly had a novel idea. Instead of large
numbers of stevedores having to manually load
cargo, why not create a standard shaped box into
which goods can be handled in a standard way. His
idea took 20years before the first container
transit was undertaken (with his own money,
because no ship owners would listen to his idea).
In 1969 Malcolm McLean retired as a multi -
millionaire!!!
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• So, from a "back of the fag -packet" idea was
  born the container ship. Initially, these were
  small vessels of up to 10,000DWT, carrying no
  more than a few hundred TEU (Twenty foot
  Equivalent Units), but have grown in size as the
  success and economies of these vessels have
  become more obvious. Today's container ships are
  being built to take 9,500 T.E.U with plan afoot
  to build 10-12,000 T.E.U. ships.
• As well as the Twenty foot container, many goods
  needs larger boxes, so there is a larger standard
  sized container, the FEU (Forty Foot Equivalent
  unit). On board a modern containership, the
  complex method of loading the TEU and FEU in an
  order that will facilitate offloading at the
  other end is now largely computerized. These
  vessels are built for speed, and can reach
  upwards of 28 knots, moving cargoes around the
  globe.
• Through transport or inter- modal transport means
  that these containers can be offloaded from a
  ship, and rapidly loaded onto trains or onto
  container lorries for onward transport to the
  place of delivery.

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