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McLean sold his haulage company in 1956.
Gateway City’s first voyage was in October 1957 and went from New Jersey to Miami.
A patent was filed in 1962 for using shipping containers as touring exhibition booths.
In April 1966, SeaLand’s Fairland sailed from the US to the Netherlands with a whopping 236 containers on board.
From here, container ships saw a massive expansion, and in 1968, container ships had the capacity to carry around 1,000 TEUs, which was exceptionally large at the time.
From 1968, with intermodal container shipping proven, the container fleet rapidly expands.
In 1968/69 the deal was responsible for 40% of Sea-Land Services revenue.
By 1970, SeaLand Industries had 36 container ships, twenty-seven thousand containers, and connections to more than 30 ports in America.
By 1973, US, European and Asian container ship operators are carrying 4 million TEUs.
By 1983, container ships are carrying 12 million TEUs, with trade routes extending to the Middle East, South Asia and Africa.
On Monday, November 23, 1987, Clark filed a patent called the “Method for converting one or more steel shipping containers into a habitable building”.
Philip Clark patented the method of converting steel shipping containers into homes. It wasn’t until 1987 that the first container homes started to appear.
On Tuesday, August 8, 1989, Clark was presented with his approved patent #US4854094A.
In 1989, the world’s largest shopping mall built from shipping containers, with 16,000 vendors, opens in Odessa, USSR.
The project cost a total of $227,000 and was ready for its first guests on November 30, 1998.
The first of 14 residential shipping container complexes now built in the UK is completed in 2001.
In 2006, Peter DeMaria, a Californian architect designed the first shipping container home in the US.
Known as the Redondo Beach House, the home was approved under the national Uniform Building Code (One of the predecessors of the IBC) and was completed in 2007.
They were soon used and built upon in LXC (linuX Containers) in 2008, and this was the most complete and stable version of container technology at the time, as it worked on the Linux kernel without any patches.
In 2010, Freight Farms establishes the first use of containers for agriculture.
By 2013, 90% of global trade is seaborne, shipped in 700 million containers every year.
26 April 2016 marks the 60th anniversary of the maiden voyage of the Ideal X and the birth of modern container shipping, a development that played a critical role in spurring the global economy.
So, while not all of these excess containers (around 14 million TEU’s in 2020, per the graph) are being stored at port facilities, the graph certainly indicates that there are an increasing number of empty containers that need to be transported somewhere else or reused in another way.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity Manufacturing, Inc. | - | $36.8M | 20 | - |
| SCOTT MANUFACTURING | - | $40.9M | 150 | 4 |
| THERM | 1935 | $52.4M | 200 | - |
| Landoll | 1963 | $150.0M | 415 | - |
| Square Deal Machining | 1998 | $3.6M | 17 | - |
| Roll·Rite | 1991 | $1.1M | 12 | - |
| BTD Manufacturing | 1979 | $12.0M | 50 | 4 |
| O'Neal Manufacturing Services | 1921 | $220.0M | 3,000 | 24 |
| Valmont Industries | 1946 | $4.1B | 9,800 | 277 |
| Steffes | 1947 | $22.0M | 100 | 69 |
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