Sea-Land Transatlantic Container Service

The Fairland voyage brought containerization to the North Atlantic and pushed European ports, railways and truckers to adopt the box. Sea-Land's weekly service linked Port Elizabeth and Baltimore with Rotterdam, Bremen and Grangemouth in Scotland, which handled the first container call in the United Kingdom on May 7, 1966. Within a few years European shipping lines formed consortia and ordered their own container ships. For importers today, the result is the standard ocean booking: a full container load moved door to door under one bill of lading, through ports on both sides of the ocean equipped to handle the same box.

• Full Container LoadFCLOne shipper's goods in a whole container
• Ocean Bill of LadingOcean carrier's receipt and contract
• Intermodal FreightFreight moved by rail and truck in one box

• Malcom McLean1913–2001 · Father of containerization

• Ideal X First Container Voyage1956 · The first commercially successful container ship sails
• Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal1962 · Port Elizabeth opens as a port built for containers
• Port of Rotterdam as World's Busiest Port1962–2004 · Rotterdam leads the world in cargo for four decades

1. Malcom McLean (Wikipedia) en.wikipedia.org
2. How a steel box changed the world economy (SWZ Maritime) swzmaritime.nl