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...When McLean tried to expand his operations, one of his largest obstacles was the Interstate Commerce Commission in the US, which regulated US railways from 1887 and interstate trucking from 1935....
...McLean, a trucker from North Carolina, was, according to Marc Levinson’s history of container shipping, The Box, simply seeking to undercut the high costs of the US’s heavily regulated trucking industry....
...According to industry legend, the heavy regulation of the trucking sector meant the trip cost the same as driving a single truck to Houston....
...The ship was owned by Malcom McLean of McLean Trucking, a man with little experience in shipping....
...Ironically, deploying different modes of transport was what Malcom Mclean, the “father of containerisation”, had in mind when he came up with a uniform steel box that could be transferred seamlessly between...
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