(November 14, 1913 – May 25, 2001; later known as Malcom McLean) was an American businessman. He was a transport entrepreneur who developed the modern intermodal shipping container, which revolutionized transport and international trade in the second half of the twentieth century. Containerization led to a significant reduction in the cost of freight transportation by eliminating the need for repeated handling of individual pieces of cargo, and also improved reliability, reduced cargo theft, and cut inventory costs by shortening transit time. 2020s use -150 sq foot- mobile hotel rooms, mobile emergency rooms eg used by japan for staff responding to covid on cruise liner, yoshimasa/takuto : repairing broken power grids or spaces for refugees (container solar roofs. wi fi enabled) -see nhk 1 jan 2020 for japans innovations with containers - low cost resilience intervention for local government--
see also qatar design of world cup stadium - containers can be reassembled after stadiums use
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