page_title: Containerization
hierarchical_section_title: Containerization
caption_attribution_description: English: Thousands of shipping containers at the terminal at Port Elizabeth, New Jersey. Image ID: line3174, America's Coastlines Collection
context_page_description: Containerization is a system of freight transport based on a range of steel containers. Containers are built to standardized sizes. They can be loaded and unloaded, stacked, transported over long distances. They can be transferred from one mode of transport to another—ships, rail and semi-trailer trucks—without being opened. The system developed after World War II. It led to greatly reduced transport costs, and supported a great increase in international trade.
context_section_description: Containerization is a system of freight transport based on a range of steel containers ("shipping containers", "ISO containers" etc.). Containers are built to standardized sizes. They can be loaded and unloaded, stacked, transported over long distances. They can be transferred from one mode of transport to another—ships, rail and semi-trailer trucks—without being opened. The system developed after World War II. It led to greatly reduced transport costs, and supported a great increase in international trade.
caption: Shipping containers at the Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal in New Jersey, USA
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