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PACIFIC MARITIME MAGAZINE
 60 Years of Containers:
The Pioneers in the Pacific Northwest
By Fred McCague
On April 26, 1956, the Pan-Atlantic Steamship tanker Ideal-X sailed from Newark, New Jersey to Houston with a deckload of 58 33-foot containers for the company’s new Sea-Land Service. The date is the generally acknowledged start of containerization. 10 years later, in 1966, Sea-Land expanded across both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. 2016 is the 60th anniversary of the Ideal-X sailing and the 50th anniversary of the container’s global expansion… MORE |
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