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The episode discusses the various types of containers used in logistics and their impact on productivity and global commerce.

A young associate, from what I could gather, had been on the job for 3 days, and was asked to go over to another building and help load out D-Containers. They were quite shocked to learn they were not the large metal containers, as she put it, that looks like trailers. She asked if I’d ever seen such. It just so happens that I’ve worked a lot with different containers earlier in my career. Now when most people hear the word container, they think about those giant steel boxes stacked on ships crossing the ocean. But containers are really everywhere. From a D container rolling through a retail grocery warehouse, to an EH container packed with heavy product, to lift vans moving families overseas, all the way up to 45-foot, and even larger, high cube ocean containers arriving from around the world. There are so many different types of containers. They organize freight, help protect the product Increasing productivity and Improving cube utilization, and speeding up transportation. And if you’ve ever worked around them, you already know containers aren’t just boxes. Some are designed for stacking. Some for rolling. They even have some refrigerated products. I’ve seen several different…

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