Editing Intermodal container (section)

===Modern form===
Containers in their modern 21st-century form first began to gain widespread use around 1956. Businesses began to devise a structured process to use and to get optimal benefits from the role and use of shipping containers. Over time, the invention of the modern telecommunications of the late 20th century made it highly beneficial to have standardized shipping containers and made these shipping processes more standardized, modular, easier to schedule, and easier to manage.<ref name="vox article">{{Cite web |last=Heilweil |first=Rebecca |date=2021-12-14 |title=The history of the metal box that's wrecking the supply chain |url=https://www.vox.com/recode/22832884/shipping-containers-amazon-supply-chain |website=Vox |language=en}}</ref>

[[File:Recklinghausen - Uferstraße - Umspannwerk 22 ies.jpg|thumb|Every international shipping container must have a "CSC-Plate"]]
Two years after McLean's first container ship, the [[SS Ideal X|''Ideal X'']], started container shipping on the US East Coast,<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/trnews/trnews246.pdf|title=The Containership Revolution: Malcom McLean's 1956 Innovation Goes Global|first=Brian J.|last=Cudahy|magazine=TR News|number=246|date=September–December 2006|access-date=2011-03-01|url-status=live|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160304190442/http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/trnews/trnews246.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref> [[Matson, Inc.|Matson Navigation]] followed suit between California and Hawaii. Just like [[Pan-Atlantic Steamship Company|Pan-Atlantic]]'s containers, Matson's were {{convert|8|ft|2|abbr=on}} wide and {{convert|8|ft|6|in|2|abbr=on}} high, but due to California's different traffic code Matson chose to make theirs {{convert|24|ft|2|abbr=on}} long.{{sfnp|van Ham|van Ham|Rijsenbrij|2012|p=26}} In 1968, McLean began container service to South Vietnam for the US military with great success.