In the evolution of global transport, containerisation proved to be one of the great technical innovations of the second half of the 20th century. The novelty in this case was the introduction of boxes, i.e. containers with a standard dimension used to package transported goods, thereby allowing their unrestricted utilisation whatever the means of transport, sea, road, or rail, and reducing the number of break-points and their attendant costs, whether through delays, theft or damage. First used on the east coast of the United States, this maritime revolution was initially put to the test and then developed in the Caribbean basin. Defined as including all the territories that border the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, this maritime region positioned between the two Americas, North and South, would become the cradle of containerisation by virtue of tis geographical proximity and its established dependent links with its US neighbour. This technical advance, representing today an essential vector of globalisation, in particular along the most frequented East-West maritime routes, would not be adopted anywhere near as quickly across the Caribbean basin. Nevertheless, over a few decades containerisation has progressively transformed both practices and means of transport across this region.