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Pallet & Forklift
Powered lift trucks (from 1917) and standard pallets turned loose goods into unit loads that machines can move in one go.
Open in the interactive tree →Clark began building powered lift tractors in 1917 and Yale entered the market in 1920; the forklift and the logistics of World War II made pallets the standard way to move goods. Unit loads paved the way for the shipping container.
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- Container Ship1956Pallets made cargo a unit load; the container took the same idea to whole ships
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