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FIELD CONTAINER CO. L.P. history
FIELD CONTAINER CO. L.P. company history timeline
The interviews and various published sources pointed to the Matson Navigation Company, a shipping firm based in San Francisco since 1882, as a key player in the development of containerization on the West Coast.
In 1927, they began to pack the baggage of the passengers on a luxury train between London and Paris into four containers.
In 1934 McLean set up his own transportation company, which soon had five trucks at its disposal.
In 1935 McLean along with his brother and sister founded McLean Trucking Co.
Harry Bridges, who had led the union since its founding in 1937, realized that the container revolution was inevitable.
Once in 1937, as he was transporting cotton, he saw dockworkers packing and unloading goods for several hours.
McLean remembered his ponderings from 1937 and had the idea of developing a trailer container with a standardized size that could be loaded onto ships by the hundreds.
By 1950, the transportation business had grown to include 1,750 trucks and 37 transportation terminals, making it the fifth-largest in America in its field.
In the 1952 McLean saw an opportunity to cut costs and speed up the movement of goods.
Because law prevented a trucking company from also owning a ship line, McClean sold his trucking company in 1955 and bought the Pan-Atlantic Steamship Company and the Gulf Florida Terminal Company.
The first was the SS Ideal X. On her maiden voyage as a container ship in April 1956, she carried 58 containers from New Jersey to Texas.
McLean sold his haulage company in 1956.
Loading the first container for Gerber Baby Food aboard the Hawaiian Merchant at Alameda, Cal., August 31, 1958.
In 1960, the name of the company was changed to Sealand Industries.
McLean's concept of global, integrated truck and ship transportation is illustrated in this 1966 Sea-Land Services brochure.
In 1966, they already started transporting containers to Holland and Scotland, Vietnam and East Asia following suit the next year.
In 1968/69 the deal was responsible for 40% of Sea-Land Services revenue.
Due to the large economical savings, it was possible to pay a severance pay / strike compensation for the union workers, after which the container business really took off. As a result, Sealand Industries had 36 container ships, 27,000 containers and access to over 30 port cities by 1969.
The three shipping containers had been manufactured around 1970; they each measured 24' x 8'6" x 8'6" and were made of aluminum.
Matson’s container yard at the Port of Oakland, about 1970.
He is meant to represent a longshoreman working as a container crane operator in Oakland, California, about 1970.
Longshoreman’s Hardhat, about 1971
The fist and cargo hook logo was adopted by ILWU longshoremen who voted to strike in 1971.
In 1987, Philip C. Clark filed for a US patent for his “method for converting one or more steel shipping containers into a habitable building.” Clark and others who saw the potential in these massive containers were “green” ahead of their time!
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.
In 2000, International Maritime Hall of Fame that celebrates the most remarkable operators in the maritime industry declared Malcolm McLean as “the man of the century”. Sealand Industries is nowadays a part of the Danish Maersk shipping company that is the largest operator in its field.
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