Cargo came aboard piece by piece — sacks, barrels, crates — carried by gangs of men.
To load one ton$5.86
Century crossed0%
Nine stops between 1955 and 2024
Figures from Marc Levinson, The Box; ISO 668 and ISO 1161; Drewry’s World Container Index; port authority throughput returns. Ship capacities are the largest vessel afloat in that year, with the years between them interpolated — anything estimated is marked “about”.