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How this plain steel box dropped the cost of global trade by 99%.
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00:00Steva doors at the port of Newark are bleeding money handling loose cargo right now.
00:05Moving a single truckload of goods across oceans took days of grueling, expensive manual labor.
00:12Common sense says bigger ships solved the crisis, but the real bottleneck was the messy loading process.
00:19Trucker Malcolm McLean popularized the standardized steel shipping container, revolutionizing global logistics.
00:25This simple metal invention completely rewired our planet, ensuring that stevedores at the port of Newark are bleeding money handling
00:33loose cargo right now.
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