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The History of the Shipping Container

Freightos

to Houston, where the shipping containers are loaded onto trucks. A patent was filed in 1962 for using shipping containers as touring exhibition booths. 0 TEUs 0 meters long. Significance. Ideal X (aka Maxton ) ships 60 containers on deck from Newark, N.J. The next year, Pan Atlantic ship Gateway City begins the regular service.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

to Houston, where the shipping containers are loaded onto trucks. A patent was filed in 1962 for using shipping containers as touring exhibition booths. . Significance. Ideal X (aka Maxton ) ships 60 containers on deck from Newark, N.J. The next year, Pan Atlantic ship Gateway City begins the regular service.

Shipping 120
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Seven Thoughts to Build a Customer-Centric Supply Chain Organization

Supply Chain Shaman

In the fall of 2008 I attended a major consumer packaged goods company’s global customer team meeting. A month after completing this strategy session I was doing a series of strategy days with two chemical companies in Houston. Reflections. My insights on the topic are now a decade old. The topic was “Customer First.”

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The View from Houston: DHL Global Energy Conference 2015

Supply Chain View from the Field

One of the biggest prosecutions involved BHP Billiton’s paying for 60 government officials and their spouses to go to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, for which they were severely penalized. Other examples of “junkets” involving “world tours” for executives in exchange for business were highlighted.