The origin of the container

 Container prototype
         At the beginning of the 19th century, Dr. Anderson of England proposed the idea of ​​container transport.
         In 1814, the British George Stephenson made the first "leather boots" steam locomotive for the Chillingworth coal mine, which traversed eight open coal carriages, carrying 30 tons at a speed of 6.4 kilometers per hour. This open carriage is made of square wood, and the wood is made of hulls, with no cover on top, similar to the carriage trailer at the time. Then there are closed doors and windows with doors and windows.
         In 1845, the British rail began to appear on the closed cargo compartment, the box with iron wood structure.
         By the second half of the nineteenth century, there was a railway tray with an active frame in Lancashire, England, used to transport cotton and cotton, commonly known as the "Lancashire tray", which could be seen as the prototype of the container.

The emergence of container transport
        As the railway, highway, maritime transport competition between the resulting fragmentation, container transport was once difficult to effectively convergence, development is extremely slow. Until the Americans Americans Malcolm McLean proposed container transport should be the implementation of "land and sea transport", it really began a modern sense of container transport, its advantages have begun to show.

         In 1956, the Pan-Atlantic ship company acquired by Marklin in a unmodified ship carrying 58 large containers, from New York to Houston, the first "sea container transport" precedent. The first shipment has achieved an exciting success, the cost per ton of cargo from 5.83 US dollars to $ 0.15. In 1960, the company changed its name to "sea land transport company".
         In 1965, the land and sea transport company developed a large container ship round of the world plan. Since then, maritime container transport has become a common trade in international trade, many large shipping companies have followed the practice of land and sea transport companies.