世界上第一艘集装箱船是一条年久的油船,名为理想X号,其甲板经过加固承载了58箱装得结结实实的货物,每只箱子大约有30英尺(9米)长。马尔科姆·麦克莱恩不是一个感情外露的人,这一点很符合他的苏格兰血统,可是那一天他看着油船离开新泽西的纽瓦克港时,却颇感焦虑。这些货物经东海岸长途航行后能否平安进入墨西哥湾,然后再抵达休斯顿?或许会如一些持怀疑态 The world’s first containership was a long-term tanker called the Ideal X, and its deck was reinforced to carry 58 cartons of tangible cargo, each about 30 feet (9 meters) long. Malcolm McLean is not an emotionally exposed person, which is very much in line with his Scottish origin, but on that day he watched as the tanker left Newark, New Jersey, but he was anxious. Can these cargoes safely enter the Gulf of Mexico after long-distance sailing on the East Coast and then arrive in Houston? Perhaps they are as skeptical as some