Before the humble shipping container, global commerce was a chaotic, labor-intensive, and painfully slow process. Goods of every shape and size—crates, barrels, sacks, and bundles—were manually loaded into the holds of ships in a method known as "break-bulk" shipping. This process could take weeks, with goods highly susceptible to damage, loss, and theft. The cost was prohibitive, lim... https://wildtribes.net/read-blog/9731