Malcom McLean
North Carolina trucker who pioneered container shipping, sending the Ideal X from Newark in 1956.
Person1913 – 2001
- Identifiers
- Wikidata Q773543
Sources
Appears in10 items
- The Shipping Container10 items
- Malcom McLean buys a shipping line1955
- Ideal X sails from Port Newark26 Apr 1956
- Gateway City, the first cellular container ship4 Oct 1957
- Setting the standard1958
- Pan-Atlantic becomes Sea-Land1960
- Containers go to Vietnam1967
- McLean sells Sea-Land to R. J. ReynoldsJan 1969
- United States Lines’ Econships1984
- United States Lines goes bankruptNov 1986
- Malcom McLean dies25 May 2001