How the shipping container connected the whole world



In the 21st century the planet Earth is no longer that big: telephone communications and the Internet, aviation and high-speed trains allow us to socialize and move in the shortest possible time. The same is true in trade: while before an overseas product was considered an exclusive for the richest, now it is nothing more than a product that can be bought in a store or ordered online. World trade has become the basis of globalization, that turned all of humanity into a single organism. And the blood of this organism can be called transportation, the basis of which is the universal cargo container — one of the most important inventions of the 20th century.
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