30 YEARS AGO

摘要

Thirty years ago, HCB readers were presented with a bumper 100-page issue, not unlike that we sent out last month, which weighed in at 112 pages. Both issues had one thing in common: a focus on tank containers. Back in 1989, we reported that the tank container industry had emerged from a brief slump and, after two years of double-digit growth, the world fleet had reached an estimated 45,000 units. Little did we suspect then that, thirty years on, the fleet would have expanded to more than 600,000 tanks.