How did the container come from?A little story about how he came into being
The historical development of container1. the origin and early development of container"Container" is called container in southern China and Hongkong. The English language is "Container" or "Box"". A container or box for loading. Containers were invented and used by the Americans. They were first used on railways. In March 19, 1921, it first appeared in the New York railway transportation corporation. The British were also reluctant to lag behind, and they began the British continental continental direct to container transit 8 years later, that is, 1929. But these are only partial, small-scale use.
The massive use of containers began with the Vietnam war. At the time the Americans use container transportation of a large amount of materials, the effect is very good, although eventually the United States did not win this war. In 1966, the United States land and Sea Corporation (Sealand) began using the modified container ship "FairLand" on the North Atlantic route, creating a new page for the history of container direct transport.
Bulk cargo transportationBefore the container is used in large quantities, the goods are transported into sacks or woven bags, cartons, wooden cases, etc.. First in the dock boxes or on bags of goods into a wire net, with the boom on the ship or shore crane boom into the cabin, and then by waiting at the bottom of the stevedores them out of the net, neatly placed in the cabin. This mode of transportation lasted for a century in China until the middle of the last century of the 90s, and today we can still see it in the Yangtze River, the Pearl River, shipping and rail transportation. Compared with the container transportation, the disadvantages of this primitive handling method are obvious:(1) time-consuming: the loading capacity of 5000 tons of bulk ships should be 5-7 days after loading and unloading; and 3000 container ships in the port loading and unloading time is not more than 6 hours.(2) goods that can be counted: hundreds, thousands of pieces of goods need to tally by piece count; and container only need to record the box number and the number of.(3): handling the damage or loss caused when serious damage or loss. For example, when workers use a hand hook to load and unload sacks, it is easy to damage the sacks, which leads to the food and plastic products in the sacks being rolled everywhere. The container is FCL FCL lift down, completely avoid the damage or loss.
