JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The sprawling container yards just south of South Africa's economic capital look like a giant's Tetris game -- thousands of brightly colored boxes piled on and around ...

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In the 1950s, trucking magnate Malcom McLean changed the world when he got frustrated enough with the speed of trucking and traffic to start a commercial shipping company in order to move goods up and ...