History of the Containerization

1. History of the Containerization

2. Rowing Ships

3. Sailing Ships

5. Sail & Steam Ships

6. Steam Ships

8. Motor Vessels

9. General Cargo

10. General Cargo • Labor intensive • Damage • Theft • Slow • Weather

12. 1950 • Labor costs very high • Cargo volumes increasing

13. Pallets • Disadvantages • Pallets are Expensive • Not all cargo can be palletized Broken stowage • High investment • Advantages • Quicker • More load per lift • Less damage to Cargo • Not special shore equipment needed.

15. General Cargo, Palletized

17. Pallets in Containers • Labor costs still rising • Still to much damage • Quicker Dispatch • Door to Door concept • Intermodal transport • Less costs on packing

18. Container • Know before second world war on trains. • 1958 first containers sailed across the Atlantic with Atlantic Container lines and Matson • First on deck • Later on below deck

19. Container shipping • First on deck on general cargo ships. • Later also below deck. • Multi Purpose ships • Full container ships, cellular ships

21. General Cargo with Containers

24. MultiPurpose

25. Container First Generation

27. 2nd generation

28. 3rd Generation

29. 4th generation, hatchless

30. 5th generation

39. Modern container feeder

40. Ro-Ro

41. Lash

42. Bulk with containers

43. Heavy Cargo ships