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Shipping containers are another genius-level invention - even better than wheels on luggage. They used individual crates before!

• a3n 2y ago
  Fun fact: inside many of the trailers you see, it's just manually loaded and stacked, and manually unloaded, individual boxes. No pallets. Not most. But many. Another fun fact: US/NATO logistics is pallet-based. Russian is largely not. Unloading shells on a hot day in a "bucket brigade" must be fun.
  • FredPret 2y ago
    True - still a lot better than painstakingly offloading a ship's cargo onto trains and trucks and vice versa, one crate at a time. All of civilization runs a good deal faster and better because of shipping containers