History
The standardised steel shipping container has its origins in the 1950s when commercial shipping operators and the US military started developing such units. The logistics method employing these was named Container Express and was abbreviated ConEx. That abbreviation evolved into a word within the American English lexicon.
ISO Standards for containers were published between 1968 and 1970.
The International Convention for Safe Containers is a 1972 regulation by the Inter-governmental Maritime Consultative Organization on the safe handling and transport of containers. It decrees that every container travelling internationally is supplied with a "CSC-Plate".
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