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In the fast-paced world of advancing innovation and architectural designs, people tend to rely on things that could make other things work faster. Like in a, they insist on creating yearly changes just to improve everyday productivity.We mostly rely on shipping companies to make ends meet. They provide us better reach for everything far off land. Though they became much of help, do we even had the time to have a look and feel on what it’s like before this innovation takes place.Here is a look-back of the great things offered in a shipping business. We will travel back in time to ages of years ago to make tell the tale of the before great container shipping.Defining shipping, it is the way of transporting commodities and merchandise goods in the neighboring states and even country by sea. A good idea proposed on shipping was container ships.Container ships are cargo ships ready to carry truck-size intermodal container, large standardized shipping container, in a technique called containerization.Containerization, a system of which involves intermodal freight transport that uses intermodal container made of weather steel.People have invented a way to transport goods through the sea but their progress might be of help at the time but as the year passes, order has been on a larger scale making it costly and time consuming instead of beneficial. Then came containerization.It was in the late 18th century when standardized load units was carried on ships and introduced to England. James Brindley, an English engineer, designed the box boat “starvationer” on 1766. Starvationer was a 10 wooden container ready to transport coal from Delph to Manchester by the Bridgewater Canal. From then on, more innovations has been built and shown the light of day.On April 26, 1956, it was then that the rebuilt container vessels called thesailed the seas and made way to the revolution of modern shipping.Containers vessels has eliminated the traditional general cargo vessels. Then gave birth to intermodal transports, the cargo was being transported to different modes of transport during one voyage.Though containerization was a revolutionizing invention in the world of shipping. It took ten years to make the changes take effect. Due to it being costly on improving the ports, railways and shippers and might result to great loss of manual jobs. On the positive side, it made transporting goods from months into a few weeks from India to Europe and vice versa.Containerization has greatly lowered the shipping expenses. It modernized the shipping industry with innovative technological that made computerized containers be checked and scan by machines. And an accurate time arrival of fifteen minutes of a two-week voyage of good transport.Did you know that the largest container ships was measured almost 400 meters (1,300 ft) in length and could carry a cargo load equal to cargo-carrying capacity of sixteen to seventeen pre-WWII freighter ships.Today’s container ships were of great help in the economy and revolutionized the shipping industry. As time passes by, more alterations has been in the way for the benefit of a low-cost, efficient cargo transport.