Standardizing shipping

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Similar to how the Standardization of websites, were helpful in globalizing the internet the standardization of shipping allowed people from all over the world to more affordable have access to internation goods and commodities. reference: @crawfordAnatomyAI source

This is very big. The standardization of the container means that any company that builds a boat or shipyard can easily get up and running because everyone uses the same things. This has made shipping way cheaper because you don't have to have a political war of using this standard vs another which would allow bigger companies to bully smaller ones thus growing their monopoly. (link to telegraph). —

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Standardized cargo containers allowed the explosion of modern shipping industry, which made it possible to model the planet as a massive, single factory. In 2017, the capacity of container ships in seaborne trade reached nearly 250,000,000 dead-weight tons of cargo, dominated by giant shipping companies like Maersk of Denmark, the Mediterranean Shipping Company of Switzerland, and France’s CMA CGM Group, each owning hundred of container vessels.¹