Jun

26

The trans-Atlantic shipping trade is about to have its 200th anniversary. The first Atlantic packet sailed from New York to Liverpool on 1/5/1818 under the flag of the Black Ball Line. Its owners established regularly scheduled trans-Atlantic shipping with freight and passenger service. 132 years before Malcolm McLean, Thompson, Wright and Marshall were accepting less-than-shipload cargoes and delivering them - intact - to the customers on the other side of the ocean.


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