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Containerization is a system of intermodal freight transport using intermodal containers (also called shipping containers and ISO containers) made of weathering steel.

The containers have standardized dimensions.

They can be loaded and unloaded, stacked, transported efficiently over long distances, and transferred from one mode of transport to another—container ships, rail transport flatcars, and semi-trailer trucks—without being opened.

The handling system is completely mechanized so that all handling is done with cranes and special forklift trucks.

All containers are numbered and tracked using computerized systems.

Globalization or globalisation (see spelling differences) is the action or procedure of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture.

Advances in transportation (such as the steam locomotive, steamship, jet engine, and container ships) and in telecommunications infrastructure (including the rise of the telegraph and its modern offspring, the Internet and mobile phones) have been major factors in globalization, generating further interdependence of economic and cultural activities.

Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A.

(MSC) is the world's second-largest shipping line in terms of container vessel capacity.

As a private company it has no obligation to publish annual reports certified by independent parties; as a consequence, the data MSC releases about itself is not verifiable.

As of the end of December 2014, MSC was operating 471 container vessels with an intake capacity of.

The Geneva-headquartered company operates in all major ports of the world.

MSC's most important port is Antwerp in Belgium.

The world is the planet Earth and all life upon it, including human civilization.

In a philosophical context, the world is the whole of the physical Universe, or an ontological world.

In a theological context, the world is the material or the profane sphere, as opposed to the celestial, spiritual, transcendent or sacred.

The "end of the world" refers to scenarios of the final end of human history, often in religious contexts.

In economics, a service is a transaction in which no physical goods is transferred from the seller to the buyer.

The benefits of such a service are held to be demonstrated by the buyer's willingness to make the exchange.

Public services are those that society (nation state, fiscal union, region) as a whole pays for.

Using resources, skill, ingenuity, and experience, service providers benefit service consumers.