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    Czechoslovak Ocean Shipping (Czech: Československá námořní plavba) was a Czechoslovak shipping company founded in 1959. Privatised in 1992 and renamed...
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  • (2015). A History of the Czechoslovak Ocean Shipping Company, 1948–1989. Ibidem-Verlag. p. 141. ISBN 9783838206660. "Nor-Shipping Sponsorship Fills Up Ahead...
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  • Flag Date Use Description 1959–1992 Czechoslovak Ocean Shipping...
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    predates the railways. Some of the earliest containers were those used for shipping coal on the Bridgewater Canal in England in the 1780s. Coal containers...
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    intermodal freight transport using intermodal containers (also called shipping containers, or ISO containers). Containerization, also referred as container...
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    An intermodal container, often called a shipping container, or cargo container, (or simply “container”) is a large metal crate designed and built for intermodal...
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    their cargo. One major shipping accident occurred in 2013 when the MOL Comfort sank with 4,293 containers onboard in the Indian Ocean. When containers are...
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    net [dead link] "Československá plavba dunajská (ČSPD): Historie ČNP" [Czechoslovak Danube Cruise (ČSPD): History of ČNP]. www.namorniplavba.cz. Archived...
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    1917, the railway served as the vital line of communication for the Czechoslovak Legion and the allied armies that landed troops at Vladivostok during...
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    Malcom McLean (category American businesspeople in shipping)
    2001) was an American businessman who invented the modern intermodal shipping container, which revolutionized transport and international trade in the...
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