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title: How the shipping container literally changed the world — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/how-the-shipping-container-literally-changed-the-world/
date: 2015-12-24
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# How the shipping container literally changed the world

The intermodal container changed our world. We would never have the interconnected and global economy of today without Malcolm McLean and his system of containerization.