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The Box is really good. One really hard part about containerization was: how do you get every port in the world to install the cranes?
by smackfu 15y ago
The Box is really good. One really hard part about containerization was: how do you get every port in the world to install the cranes?
- eru 15y agoThe Wikipedia article mentions that the ships had cranes.
- hga 15y agoRead The Box. They didn't work very well, frequently breaking down and they weren't very fast either. As I recall after that first generation the emphasis switched to good port facilities including good cranes (but a lot more is required including enough ground transport). Quite a few historical ports essentially died for one reason or another while quite a few went from virtually nothing to world class (in both capacity and traffic). All in all it's a fascinating story of technology and technique development and diffusion.