History:
From the late 18 th century container in British coal mining area has its origins. In 1795 Bejamin OuNa open which is built in his coal Butterley iron works of the little van Eaton ramp. horse-drawn round on the ramp, coal van containers, form, can from OuNa is also pushing Derby canal barge canal transshipment.
By the 1830 s, the railway several continents portable and can be transferred to other transportation containers. Liverpool and Manchester in England railway is such.
The beginning of the twentieth century saw through the highway and railway movement and the design between airtight container box.
Toward the end of world war ii, the United States army after the use of special containers, so as to speed up the loading and transports of loading and unloading. The army uses the "transport" of containers, sure shipping in the fields of personnel of the household appliances. A "transport" is a reusable containers, 8.5 feet (2.6 meters) long, 6.25 feet (1.91 meters) wide and 6.83 feet (2.08 meters) high, rigid steel a 9000 pounds of carrying capacity. During the Korean war in the transport of handling sensitive military equipment, and prove effective evaluation, for the more widely used for approval. The material destruction of theft, wooden boxes, and by extending the processing time in the port of dockers, busan.
Believe that the army of the steel container need. The army started in 1952 a term used in conex, for "container express". The first significantconexes shipment, including engineering materials and spare parts in Columbus, Georgia general depot San Francisco port, shipping, yokohama, Japan railway, and then to South Korea, in 1952 the end; Almost half the time reduce the