Bergen, Månen

I begynnelsen av de trans-atlantiske containerskipenes seilas frem og tilbake mellom Europa og USA inneholdt containerene spesielt to typer gods:

«Two types of freight appear to have filled those first containers crossing the Atlantic: whiskey on the westbound run, military goods on the voyage to Europe. Liqour exporters had long complained of the huge losses to theft on the docks, and convincing them to use containers was not a hard sell. Among Sea-Land’s first ports of call was Grangemouth, in Scotland, where it picked up Scotch whiskey (sic). Sea Land won the business with a tank container, made of stainless steel, designed to let exporters ship their whiskey in bulk for bottling in the United States. two tank containers would fit neatly into a standard container cell on a Sea-Land ship, putting an end to the piulferage that had plagued the whiskey trad from time immemorial, » The Box, s. 165