ISO 668 Shipping Containers
About ISO 668 Shipping Containers
The standard that fixed the dimensions and corner castings of freight containers, building on the boxes Malcom McLean sailed in 1956. The twenty foot box became the TEU, the unit of world trade. Standardized containers cut loading costs roughly thirty fold and made the modern global supply chain possible.
Related Standards
Standard Gauge Railway
The track gauge of four feet eight and a half inches, 1435 millimeters, popularized by George Stephenson and required for new...
ICAO Doc 9303
The International Civil Aviation Organization specification for machine readable travel documents, first issued in 1980. It...
UN/LOCODE
The United Nations trade and transport location code system, five letter identifiers like USNYC and DEHAM for ports, airports and...
Euro Emission Standards
The European Union vehicle exhaust limits that began with Euro 1 in 1992, slashing carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and...