Chicken/egg conundrum. Did globalization create the demand for the shipping container or did the shipping container boost globalization?
(not sure I should give my preemptive speech on the difference between globalization and globalism but it always seems to lead down that path for these articles)
It’s more like, if you build it ? they will come.
It’s not really chicken/ egg, it’s how things work. There’d been plenty of globalization going on already, but it was running into serious barriers of logistics. One of the biggest being when you changed transport mediums, ships trucks and trains all had different needs, and moving flats around was slow and required a lot of tracking. Put it all in a truck back that can work on ships and trains and bang, what was probably the biggest logistical nightmare of shipping disappears. It’s like the crest of that first hill of a rollercoaster.