by Aad Storm, CEO and Founder, Eveon Containers

The container is considered one of the best trade inventions of the past century, an essential enabler of the globalized economy.

Standardization is its key virtue. This makes it possible to use it across different transportation modes, giving it the possibility to sail, fly, or roll throughout vast expanses.

The fact that it is standardized means that it ticks at least one of the boxes (pun unintended) for being considered a commodity.

And commodity markets are always transparent, right? Unfortunately, they are not!

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