The maritime industry has been transformed by more than 50 years of containerization since the first containerized maritime shipment set sail from Port Newark, New Jersey in 1956. It does not come as a surprise that maritime transportation was the first mode to pursue containerization since it is the most constrained by loading and unloading operations. Containerization permits the mechanized handling of cargoes of diverse types and dimensions that are placed into boxes of standard size. Thus, non-standard traffic that would have required significant and labor intensive transshipment activities becomes standardized with time consuming and costly stevedoring reduced. Instead of taking days to be loaded or unloaded, cargo can now be handled in a much shorter time period as a modern container crane can accommodate about two movements per minute. The most common container is 40 foot in length, the equivalent of two TEUs. Separate transport systems are becoming integrated by intermodal transportation, where each mode tends to be used in the most productive manner. Thus, the line-haul economies of maritime shipping can be combined with the hinterland access provided by rail and trucking. The entire transport sequence is now seen as a whole, rather than as a series of stages, which is changing the role and function of freight forwarders, transport companies, terminal operators and third party-logistics providers.