Shipping container, perhaps, might appear an unlikely candidate for the most influential invention of the 20th century, but it has arguably had a bigger impact than the aeroplane or the microchip. Containerisation is also said to be the last best standardisation in the global shipping industry, which dramatically reshaping the world economy. And this happened only about 60 years back! In fact, container shipping made the world smaller and the world economy bigger.
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