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THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 1

By Cathal Brennan · 4 parts · 16 h 26 min · English

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North Carolina, New Jersey and the world's waterfronts, 1913 to 1970. Malcom McLean runs a trucking company and cannot get his trailers onto a ship without unpacking them. In 1956 he stops unpacking them. The idea is not a vessel or an engine but a unit: a steel box of agreed dimensions that a crane can lift, a chassis can carry and nobody has to open. Getting from one voyage to a world standard takes fourteen years, and the obstacles are not technical. They are longshoremen whose work the box abolishes, regulators who forbid a trucker to own ships, rival fleets with boxes of different lengths, and a patent somebody has to agree to give away. Covers Malcom McLean, McLean Trucking, Waterman Steamship Corporation, Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corporation, and Sea-Land Service.

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  1. Part 01

    4:01:56

  2. Part 02

    3:58:30

  3. Part 03

    4:10:00

  4. Part 04

    4:15:52

Books in this series

  1. THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 1

    4 parts · 16 h 26 min

  2. THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 2

    4 parts · 14 h 46 min

  3. THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 3

    4 parts · 15 h 42 min

  4. THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 4

    4 parts · 15 h 34 min

  5. THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 5

    4 parts · 14 h 11 min

  6. THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 6

    4 parts · 13 h 13 min