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Malcolm McLean
Malcolm McLean (1914-2001) is credited as the inventor of containerized shipping and the founder of the Sea-Land Corporation, now a part of the Maersk Group .
He started out in the trucking industry as an owner-operator and came upon the idea for standard sized containers that could be quickly loaded and unloaded while waiting for his truck full of cotton bales to be unloaded.
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