Containerization marks 40th anniversary on April 26, 1996 -- A New Jersey innovation.PORT NEWARK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 1996-- April 26, 1956. It was simply called an "experiment in integrated truck-ship freight distribution" when the IDEAL X, a converted World War II tanker sailed from Port Newark, N.J. with 58 containers on specially rigged decks. The reality was the dawn of containerization con·tain·er·ize v.tr. con·tain·er·ized, con·tain·er·iz·ing, con·tain·er·iz·es 1. To package (cargo) in large standardized containers for efficient shipping and handling. 2. . More than any other individual, Malcolm P. McLean was responsible for containerization, an idea that changed the shape of ships and shoreside marine terminals. And by reducing cargo damage, handling, and the time it takes to load and unload cargo, it gave shippers improved service at a lower cost. Containerization revolutionized the way business was done in the shipping industry. Within the next few years the company that owned and operated the IDEAL X, Pan Atlantic Steamship steamship, watercraft propelled by a steam engine or a steam turbine. Early Steam-powered Ships Marquis Claude de Jouffroy d'Abbans is generally credited with the first experimentally successful application of steam power to navigation; in 1783 his Corp. would change its name to Sea-Land Service and pioneer the world's first liner container route, between the U.S. mainland and Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (pwār`tō rē`kō), island (2005 est. pop. 3,917,000), 3,508 sq mi (9,086 sq km), West Indies, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) SE of Miami, Fla. . At the same time, Matson Navigation Company Matson Navigation Company, a subsidiary of Alexander & Baldwin, is a private ocean transportation company with roots extending into the late 19th century. It is credited with introducing mass tourism to Hawaii with the opening of the Moana Hotel (now known as the Moana Surfrider Hotel) began the containerization of the West Coast-Hawaii trade, and Grace Line inaugurated the first international container service between U.S. East Coast ports and the Caribbean and Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. . It didn't end there. The birth of containerization was largely responsible for the movement of cargo operations in New York Harbor New York Harbor, a geographic term, refers collectively to the rivers, bays, and tidal estuaries near the mouth of the Hudson River in the vicinity of New York City. This is sometimes construed in the sense "the Ports of New York and New Jersey". to the New Jersey side. Manhattan did not have the land needed to store and move containers. McLean operated out of Port Newark, but the Port Authority had remarkable foresight in recognizing the impact containerization would have. An extensive piece of marshland adjacent to Port Newark was earmarked for development. A small stream that trickled around the perimeter of Newark Airport and flowed towards Newark Bay became the site of excavation and eventually became the Port Elizabeth channel. The world's first containerport con·tain·er·port n. A port equipped to handle containerized cargo. , Port Elizabeth today covers 1,170 acres and represents an outlay of nearly a half-billion dollars. Containerization spawned companies that developed and manufactured shoreside equipment; it breathed life into the shipbuilding industry constructing vessels as long as the Empire State Building is high; it gave a new lease on life to some ports and spelled early death to others; the railroads were born-again; leasing companies were founded to rent equipment to steamship companies; competitors began forging alliances with each other to pool assets in a capital-intensive environment; shoreside and seagoing sea·go·ing adj. Made or used for ocean voyages. seagoing Adjective built for travelling on the sea Adj. 1. labor honed skills and became technological practitioners; it mandated the rewriting of shipping legislation, and even changed the ways that wars were fought. The container revolution also emboldened em·bold·en tr.v. em·bold·ened, em·bold·en·ing, em·bold·ens To foster boldness or courage in; encourage. See Synonyms at encourage. Adj. 1. Glen Mather, a former Continental Can company executive, to establish the Bulk Packaging and Containerization Institute in 1960 -- later to become the Containerization and Intermodal Institute -- and the evolution of a new niche of media. Publications were founded such as Container News, now Intermodal Shipping, and Containerisation International Magazine in the United Kingdom, as this revolutionary form of transportation and distribution grew throughout the world. The Containerization and Intermodal Institute and Containerisation International magazine will co-sponsor a gala dinner 'Celebrating 40 years of Containerization' at the Sheraton New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Hotel and Towers on April 26, 1996. McLean is Honorary Chairman and guest speaker is Dr. Henry Kissinger. Press is invited and may contact Executive Director Barbara Spector Yeninas at the C&II headquarters -- which are in New Jersey at (201) 226-0160. CONTAINERIZATION IS A SIGNIFICANT PIECE OF THE BURGEONING ROLE NEW JERSEY PLAYS IN WORLD TRADE AND HAS BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INCREDIBLE GROWTH OF THE STATE'S INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS. PLEASE CALL C&II FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. CONTACT: Barbara Yeninas, 201/226-0160 |
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