Containerization: The Most Influential Invention That You've Never Heard Of
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- The intermodal container changed our world. We would never have the interconnected and global economy of today without Malcolm McLean and his system of containerization.
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SAME HERE!!!!!!
Wow, the same exact thing happened to me!
samee
Same
wow same
"Shipping is so inexpensive"
*Australians laugh, then cry
Eh
Gavin Sorry for my ignorance but, why Australians?
Isanzu Ractivadántra because it often costs twice as much to ship to Australia than it does to Europe or the US.
Don't worry. The Alaskans have a sympathetic shoulder for you Aussies to cry on.
The problem is you have to ship the shoulder
The majority of products you use are made outside your own countries borders, unless you live in China.
Bruno Eye depends. If you are a poor Chinese, yes. If you're rich, no. Even China imports a lot of stuff. If only because the ships and trains can't run empty one way.
Jesus Gonzalez unless China was building the ships, trains, and containers....
AceAudacious it might surprise you to hear, but having anything run empty has been something logistical experts have been trying to avoid since forever. And even if every single container were made in China, it'd still be cheaper to ferry them back empty than to use them only once.
To give you just one example of this logistical conundrum: during Hajj flights out of Saudi Arabia are outrageously cheap. Why? Well, you can sell tickets *into* Mecca at arbitrarily high prices but you can't have the planes just sit there until Hajj is over - so you fly them back and forth and any paying customer you get for the "empty" section is bonus.
Plus China actually has some demand for certain goods from Europe, mostly stuff that consumers wouldn't think of like machinery or spare parts for machinery
Jesus Gonzalez That bit was my try at something commonly known as a 'joke', and FYI so was this.
Jesus Gonzalez that's interesting! They bring in a lot of raw materials (like wood) and food from New Zealand, where I am from.
So he sold everything he had to start his shipping business?Guess you could say he... couldn't contain his excitement
VictorWithAJi oh god haha
This needs top comment
VictorWithAJi w
Just, NO!!
*Laughs ass off*
Looooll
the clothes you're wearing have probably been around more of the world than you ever will
Wow. Now _that’s_ a great comment.
Who would win?
The entire scientific and entrepreneurial community of humanity
-or-
One boi who convinced everyone to pack shit in the same size box
currently in the process of watching all your videos. they are well made and very informative! Thank you! Also just noticed on socialblade that your channel exploded in popularity in april/may this year, what happened? :D
+genbatzu Reddit happened then everybody else picked up on it. It's pretty easy to grow once you have momentum
well, then congratz that reddit happened :D it's just like with the huydraulic press channel, once a video goes viral, the corresponding channel is likely to grow exceptionally fast
Le Reddit Army has arrived!
genbatzu sam
I mean same
I like your videos, but whenever you want to put text on the screen you give us several seconds of black screen - I keep thinking that something's wrong with the video. Can you not go to black so long before you start putting text up? Or put a frame around it or something?
Same.
and here I thought my monitor was going bonkers
Same
you forgot that the earth is flat and ships sail over the horizon and fall off the edge and get eaten by monsters
STAY TRUE Nice argument against flat brainers. Never thought of sending them to a port.
the earth is flat and the sun is an electric oven, right
Well there's always a drowning. Even on a flat earth you'd just wrap around to the underside, assuming you don't break your bones or suffocate from lack of air.
Flat Earth is dumb, therfore you're dumb.
@@PandoraKin564 it's a joke lol
Another fun fact I learned recently is most or all containers are made out of 3mm thick Coreten. It's a brand name for weathering steel that sort of seals itself when it rusts, so only the surface rusts. That's why almost all weathering steel is made in 3mm thickness only, beacause 90% of it is used for shipping. I've been using Coreten to make decorative screens for years because people like the rusty look but don't want their screens to end up falling apart in the weather.
It's kind of weird that it took us that long to figure out that it would be easier to load ships if we stacked things neatly in boxes??? Containerisation feels like a much less complex technology than say the ability to make a vehicle that can traverse the world's oceans. Cool video!
It requires standardization, if the containers don't align they're pretty much useless. And also the tools required to effeciently deal with them are too expensive if there's not enough adaption
Damn I thought he was referring to replacing virtual machines with containerization
The paradox of the northwest passage opening is that because of global warming we can now do things that contribute less to global warming...
Klemen Voncina Using global warming to reduce global warming, then losing that method, then slowly gaining that method again
The NW passage is only open during a narrow season to specific ships with Ice classification and non-polluting engines and the still need to be accompanies by icebreakers......so that is not the panacea that some people think it is.
Ryu Fitzgerald you've seen it open and close before indistrislization? What evidence do you have?
global warming is a scam.
Sam Song A scam needs someone to profit, where is the profit?
that was a very overwhelming video about an undervalued topic
Your channel is "Subscriberable" before it is likeable
Should do a follow-up about palletization, the precursor to the container revolution.
you mean a 5 second video? Nah, not worth it.
It would be... Half As Interesting.
No logistics needed when the containers works??? You will always need logistics everywhere :D (2:38)
Delft Trains He means that the containers fit on all of the IM well cars, trailers, and ships universally (most of the time). So the logistics basically never need to include figuring out where containers will fit!
That's totally different than no longer needing logistics. You still need logistics even more because they fit on everything, just to calculate wich transport model is the cheapest. Truck all the way, train + truck, vessel + truck just to name a few.
Delft Trains Delft Trains Absolutely right. And he said "there's no need for logistics" but in the context of "if the container will work"
Yeah that's true :) He just formulated it too general, since logistics is huge, and will always be needed everywhere. I'm studying it now ^^
You need logistics to MAKE containers work - who do you think arranges the container transport?
I literally thought this would be about a video about Docker and was like: »When did Wendover start diving into IT-related topics?«
SAME
Malcolm McLean did not design the containers. He hired an engineer to design them. That engineer was Keith Tantlinger, who designed the corner lock that made containerization possible, among other things.
See en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Tantlinger
No, it was a welder who built the first containers, I forget his name though.
Doug Mcdonell building and designing is a different thing
At 5:27, does anyone else hear pipping instead of shipping
yes
I loved this video!!! It was greatly appreciated and Informational video. I actually learned something that has Global influence on many levels. But is offend or actually never thought about.
great, informative video as usual. one small quarrel... the Tropicana train is made up of refrigerated boxcars, not intermodal containers. love your channel!
Shipping containers are awesome, I lived in one for a year.
I'd love to see you produce a video of these containers being used for affordable and sturdy homes. #refugeecamps
1:40
Sold everything he owned to follow his idea.
What are you doing with your life ?
wonderful video, thank you
Thank you!
This is a great video, very well researched and explained. I work for a freight forwarding company, and am currently working on a training program for new recruits. Do you have any objection to my including your video as part of the content?
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson. Really great book on this exact subject.
And I think the video title should have been "The Most Influential Invention That You've Never THINK Of"
I read this title as Civilization:
The narrator sounds a lot like Dan Mintz, aka Tina Belcher.
Keith Fulkerson haha, yeah, I guess he does
Today I have seen that a cargo container from a ship has fitted to a truck perfectly. I said wow. It was just like a lego :) Than I started researching. What was the story behind this harmony. This video was what I was exactly looking for :)
Even if it past 5 years from that time. it's still informative.
Thanks..
Those logistics videos are so interesting, to understand the processes behind our industrialization
Great video!
The only thing is I disagree with is that the greatest threat to mankind is global warming. Just had to get it out.
why would you think that?
+rickson50 Not because climate change isn't a threat, but because there are more immediate threats as severe or possibly more. If you take a look at the probability of the human species being wiped out by 2100, the top three most likely methods are all man made; one being super advanced AI and the other two being from nanotechnology.
And on a side note, I believe that we are wasting our time on inferior alternative energy sources. The way to go is Nuclear power.
Joshua Kravatz
there is so muc \h wrong with what you just said. In fact I think every single thing you said was wrong. I highly recommend you do some research.
Or maybe instead of saying how much is wrong, you state what you're saying?
0:40 It all changed when *railroads* started laying down significant track in the 19th century. Corn and beef from Nebraska to the East Coast allowed those cities to grow.
Holy. Moly. Your channel is the most informative I have ever seen.
Me: I'm mature.
Also me : Bendover Productions.
took me a few seconds to notice the wordplay
"We wouldn't have our oranges from Florida" ......"We wouldn't have our phones from China" ..........why not?
The picture at 5.26 is of a refrigerated rail box cars - NOT containers. The suggestion here is that the Tropicana oranges are moving domestically across the USA so containers play no role in this transport whatsoever. You would have been better served by showing photos or video of Chiquita or Dole or Del Monte reefer ships with reefer containers on board.
Mobile phones are mostly air-freighted due to the value and time taken to move these high-tech but short shelf life items to market. Containers are not applicable.
Actually, to illustrate this point you should have mentioned something like toys, furniture or athletic shoes- all of which have been boosted by containerisation and which have grown in worldwide transport because of containers.
you wanna bypass my country Somalia , that is unfair , you are messing with our economy (piracy).
Northeast Passage isn't the panacea that you suggest. The first container vessel to try this routing was a Maersk vessel which sailed direct from Vladivostok to Hamburg but that was a single trial. The reasons this is not such a great solution is that it is only open a couple of months a year, that ice class (strengthened) ships are still needed and, at all other times an icebreaker convoy would be needed. In addition, the Northern route does not allow valuable wayports in the Middle east, India and the Mediterranean to be called, so the northern route is a point-to-point service only - good for speed but limited in cargo opportunities.
"No need for logistics, No need for calculations"??????
Do you seriously listen to yourself....or maybe this is the reason why container shipping lines make no money - because they don't operate logistics or make calculations?
Your voice lacked the punch it usually has.. one that UA-cam is so much in love with..
This was before he had the budget to do sound editing.
Avoiding the pirate infested waters of the Gulf of Aden .....maybe in 2012 but this is no longer a serious threat and container ships were never a major target of the pirates due to their speed and high freeboard. Do you know anything about piracy?
Do you mean to tell me that no one was able to navigate the northern coast of Russia before 2009? Why did Russia even have a navy?
Russia has fleets at Black Sea, Baltic sea, Arctic ocean and Vladivostock. The Arctic fleet was only developed recently due to year long ice on ocean but had recently began to melt. You could have used ice breakers before climate change but they can get stuck and are more expensive
The assertion that trade was limited to high value products prior to containerization is false. Some trade lanes were not containerized until the late 1970's - some 15 years after containers were introduced into the North Atlantic trade. The speed of container ships has been reduced in recent years due to overcapacity, there are still vessels trading that were designed to operate at 28 knots or even more.
Boats?
There's a very interesting book about this, 'The Box.'
Alan Fox author?
Alan Fox author?
Marc Levinson
The concept of containerisation has also taken the software development industry by storm in the form of Docker containers.
+Alex L In the form of what?
@@Exige000same idea, a box that you can put whatever software in you want. The OS does not need to go hands on. Just move the container
I look forward to 3d printing wrecking the global supply chain and containerization.
+TheForgottenWerks you wont be able to print a smartphone
You will be able to print many of the components. Just think of all the useless plastic crap that is currently being shipped around the world in containers at this moment.. All that useless plastic crap will be able to be printed locally and on demand.
TheForgottenWerks sadly. 3D printing won't replace the current method of production. The process is much slower and more expensive than just making molds and pouring material into it
For now. It's rapidly getting cheaper.
it's not gonna be faster though
2:42 "There is no need for logistics"?? IT IS 100 % LOGISTICS.
He meant that there's no need to figure out where the containers will fit.
The only part of the title I really bothered to read was the Containerization bit, but my brain read it as Colonization... >_< Still, interesting...
0:57 I wonder if that's the Ever Given, 5 years before her fateful blocking of the Suez Canal
Make a video on: why does something cost what it costs?
Has anyone read "The Box". Its a great book about just this. Highly recommended!
Why feature a bulk carrier when talking about innovations in container shipping? Why feature a Rhine barge when talking about the speed of 15 knots (these barges don't sail at anything like 15 knots). Why say that Malcolm McLean invented "corrugated" boxes, when his containers were aluminium flat-sided with side posts ? (Modern containers are Corten steel).
probably because limitations of the amount of stock footage he can get
Then he should look harder to get proper container footage - God knows there are plenty of pictures of container ships around the world.
great video! I never thought about that... I love learning new stuff from your channel
Amazing concept and amazing video. Thank you for making this.
Wow Wendover used to be so un-sassy!
These videos are fantastic. Thank you for taking the time and effort to make them.
Great video. It is interesting that an invention from an American has caused so many jobs to move to the developing world.
wow! i love containers
gunnix mundt me too man! Wanna be my container buddy?
yes
You poor sad person.
I live near the huge port in Norfolk Va and there are 2 sizes of shipping containers the standard one and then frequently I see one that is half the size as the standard one
Sammy there are 3, including “half” and “tall”
How does containers made ships go around north? Ships could have gone around north even if the shipments were loaded without containers.
Stock footage is an invention that has made Wendover possible
Why did you think we might not have heard of containerization? Wherever you go, there they are. Containers are everywhere. People even try to make buildings out of used containers.
Oh, and by the way, there is more than one size of container. At 1:05 you can clearly see that there are two distinct sizes of containers and the larger size can fit atop two of the smaller size.
There were 20, 35, 40 and 45 footers when I went to sea. The 35 footers weren't around long, Sealand was the only company to use them that I know of.
@2.33 - "fit on the truck that will take it up to Russia" ......... except that the truck in the picture is a refrigerated van trailer - NOT a container!
If you are going to make a video about containerisation, at least show CONTAINERS !
@2.36 - "Even some planes are now being designed to fit intermodal containers" ......except the picture isn't of a container but a ThalesAirbus satellite module.
Never heard of? LOL... Some of your viewers deal with containers every day and wish more locally made stuff was available.
Next step would be finding a way to make air freight as inexpensive as sea freight, or sea freight as fast as air freight. THEN we'd be talking about another boom in economy and development.
Morpheus network
This is an excellent video! You ought to do more videos on little known ideas which transformed the world.
Actually, container carriers have a much much higher speed of 22-24 knots rather than the one you mentioned. The average speed you mentioned is that of bulk carriers and traditional crude oil tankers (More like 12 knots to be more accurate).
I worked on board an LNG carrier and our average speed was 16-17 knots (Which is slow for LNG carriers, usually it is 18-19).
I know that stuff first hand. I've been on watch for many many hours on that navigation bridge so my source is my experience. I think you are a little bit inaccurate right there.
ships can be faster if we use ground-effect vehicles, besides who wouldn't want their stuff transported in an ekranoplan.
Simple invention big changes
Holy-cannoli, more proof that we could be unified if we could figure out the Magic of these unifying moments. These 'no-duh' moments are all over but oddly infrequent and oddly passive.
Yeah. But no a single word about how incredibly CONTAMINANT these giant cargo ships are. That is changing our world too.
the truck @ 2:00 isn't a container
+Frosty Bills Well spotted, but that wasn't the only inaccuracy.......!
there is no reason to produce things across the world when we now have advanced cybernetics technology that has the potential to increase productivity and reduce the labor requirements of the population to 10 hours per week per person. We need to embrace machine automation and develop a new economic system that is actually based on the caring capacity of the earth and well-being people. we need a system that is not run by inherently corrupt profit driven incentive that only causes class stratification, wealth disparity, engineering shortcomings, and damage to the environment.
most used container: docker container :)
Was this video opinion really worth sitting through a 15 second commercial? No.
i heard of it in geography class before i watched this video. thank you Mr. whitesell
There is a documentary called "The container that changed the world" which is all about the shipping container. Recommended for anyone further interested in this topic.
That's a pretty neat graphic at 2:44. Was it computer animated, or an actual timelapse video shot from space?
Graphic
I already knew knew about containerization in the '80s when I worked for the Port of San Francisco.
Got news for some Real Historians...Malcolm got his proven system from the Pacific Northwest, Truck to Ship to train or your door...1st successful trip was 64 containers by People with Balls of steel - Ocean Van Lines 1952 Seattle to Alaska, Seattle Times Aug 31 1952....Malcolm's trip was 1956 who used the same method, he had money, truck company and tankers and bought the man who knew how to piece it together....he never thanked Ocean Van Lines 1 time to play the hero. True history dont matter when its about fame and $$$. Without Ocean Van Lines Malcolm would of not had copied it for 2nd place.
Capt D
Saving of US $300,000 of fuel per vessel per shipping? This cost is Zero Ice Breaker Cost that varies from Zero US $50/ton/nm. In addition thee shall be extra insurance for pack ice or floats hitting the Vessel. Global Warming shall open Northern Route to Bulk Shipping. All in all it shall save shipping costs considerably. Will it benefit ordinary consumer? I doubt it.
man this video is SO GOOD.
thank you! the logistics of this stuff is fascinating to me.
Containerization continues to evolve, driven by community contributions, industry standards, and the growing demand for efficient, scalable, and portable application architectures.
Imagine how convenient it would be if human being could be made so easily modular. Imagine all standard-sized beds, chairs, cars, airplanes, work-space cubicles. You just zip about your day being snapped into and snapped out of wherever you need to be.
I propose that we should put people into steel boxes, too. Those too large might need to be culled. Them's the breaks...
shipping prices plummeted, price of goods stayed the same...more products sold and moved to consumers....prices rising...manufacturing processes made more effecient and with cheaper materials. ..prices going up....what's wrong here?
nice video...
Pretty random that the graphic for the North West Passage is a journey from London to Mokpo, South Korea.
I do wonder how much protectionism had to be overcome from the dock workers. Surely loading all that stuff by hand they must have thought, why don't we make the boxes a bit bigger and use a crane, or take the truck along with the cargo.
Hate to beat a dead horse but the "no need for logistics" comment was just cringeworthy. The biggest vessels these days carry in excess of 12,000 TEUs, those boxes don't just get there by themselve. A lot of planning goes into every shipment.
this is what happens when you let real engineers solve a problem
Yes, like the Tacoma narrows Bridge, the Comet airliner, the Hindenburg, and many more.
dockworkers ( who mostly were internally displaced refugees and immigrants ) were paid almost nothing... theft was rampant... pikachu surprise face
its not one size box, we have 20, 30, 40, 45 even 48,50,53 foot box in length. they can be smaller a taller (high cube). can be flat rack, open top, etc...
you clearly never heard of the White Pass Corp Port Coquitlam BC to Skagway Alaska
developed in British Columbia Canada for the Gold Rush
I think you should've talked more about the container. Surely it wasn't a revolutionary idea (a big box that stores stuff?). Why wasn't it invented sooner? Is it the science behind it or something?
It sounds super idiotic for us to ship shit the same way we did since the time of the Phoenicians, like come on, it took an embarrassing amount to figure that one out, much like the upside down ketchup bottle
xUdieToox like many simple things, the key requirements weren't there yet. Containers required advanced metalworking techniques which weren't developed until after ww1. You just couldn't get enough metal cheap enough to make enough to be useful before then. Further, there were a few small improvements (pallets and related bits) before the container. Not much before, mind you, bit it did help.
Is there actually anyone (in the reasonably developed world - I'm not talking Amazonian Indians) that has never heard of a shipping container? Because I find that hard to believe.
Well, I love the episode and I understand the point you are trying to make, but sadly you are wrong. Containerization didn't produce the demand for those goods, it developed as a solution, consequence of global demand.
Container ships average 23 kt in good conditions not 15 kt.Actually the container ship is the fastest among the other types of cargo ships because of it's design (long and slim).
cannot agree more about this video!
except that even with containerization, US and north america want 53ftt containers while the rest of the world is mostly satisfy with 40ft ones...lol