The Sea Lad's video: Container Ship - Interesting Facts You Didn t Know

Interesting Facts about containers and container ships that maybe you didn´t know. A gentleman named Malcolm McLean invented the first metal container in 1956 as a replacement for the traditional breakbulk cargo handling. We know China makes a lot of things, but did you know they make practically 97 percent of all shipping containers? It's estimated that there are over 20 million active shipping containers around the world making a total of 200 million trips a year. That should give you some idea of the massive scale that is modern world trade. ⚓️ For more videos like this click like and subscribe ⚓️ ⛳️Copyright: Hapag Lloyd & Pexels - Composed by Sea Lad 🔴For copyright matters please contact us at: sealad.mail@gmail.com You can find Us on: Web page: www.thesealad.com FB: https://www.facebook.com/thesealad YouTube: https://goo.gl/PcwM6k Google+:https://goo.gl/kHOOO9 Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/thesealad Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheSeaLad1 Seafarers Jobs: http://www.jobatseas.com Watch more maritime videos on our channel: https://goo.gl/O7dM4Z Ships in storm videos: https://goo.gl/xs1r9b Fail / Crash / Launch videos: https://goo.gl/mHcrQd Documentaries: https://goo.gl/5wkRNB Inside the ship tours: https://goo.gl/Al8Da2 Time-Lapse videos: https://goo.gl/zE989s Ship Simulator Games: https://goo.gl/V2K3YY