A couple of weeks ago Maersk Line, the shipping giant, launched a manifesto for change. Shipping has had a number of major changes in its commercial life – from sail to steam, from steam to oil, from ...

John McCown's career has been closely tied to the rise, fall and rise again of the late containerisation pioneer Malcolm McLean. Born in the south in Mobile, Alabama, McCown originally came to the ...

Keith Tantlinger, who died on August 27 aged 92, developed the technology that launched containerised shipping – in the process redrawing the global economic map by transforming the way cargo is moved ...