Maritime panel.(Intermodal Founding Fathers of North America Conference)(Panel Discussion)

Transportation Law Journal, June, 2001

Theodore Prince, Moderator

Intermodal transportation would not exist as it does today without the introduction of containerization by the maritime sector. Neither would global trade. Clearly by its very nature, all maritime transportation is intermodal, usually involving at least a steamship and a truck, very often rail, and increasingly other modes, such as air. Today's intermodal world has been greatly affected by double-stack transportation and domestic containerization, and the distinguished pioneers on this panel transcended the whole intermodal integration of maritime with rails and surface and the whole transportation network. Don Orris and his group "the Oakland Raiders" really helped the railroad industry understand what it meant to run a service of...

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