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FreightWaves Classics/Pioneers: Malcom McLean changed the freight world with intermodal containers Malcom McLean and a sea of containers. (Photo: americanbusinesshistory.org)
Malcom P. McLean was born in Maxton, North Carolina in 1913. After finishing high school his family did not have the financial resources to send him to college. He worked for several years and in 1935, McLean bought a used truck.
That same year, McLean, his sister, Clara, and his brother, Jim, founded McLean Trucking Co. Based in Red Springs, North Carolina, McLean Trucking began transporting farmers’ harvests and supplies, as well as empty tobacco barrels. McLean was one of the drivers. Through hard work and resourcefulness, the company had grown to 30 trucks by 1940.
The shipping container turns 65 years old
On April 26, 1956, a freight shipping container was sent out into the world for the first time. The invention by Malcom P. McLean, an American with Scottish roots, revolutionized world trade.
A man and his boxes
In 1956, Malcom McLean, a shipowner and freight forwarder from the US, had a brilliant idea: if goods were shipped together in a box, instead of prepared for shipment individually, a lot of time and effort could be saved. And that meant saving money always a winning argument.
A million crooked backs
McLean may have wanted to make life easier for all the men working their backs off in the world s ports (not just on the US East Coast, where the first containers were shipped). The invention may have helped save their backs, but it also cut down on the number of available jobs.