About USsBorn in 1914
1931: Mc Lean completes high school
1934: McLean buys the first secondhand truck
1937: McLean conceives the idea about container, while waiting for his truck to be loaded in New Jersey
Early 1950s: McLean Trucking Company owns and operates 1,776 trucks
1955: McLean Industries acquired a small steam ship company, Pan Atlantic
1956: Ideal X, a converted old tanker carries 58 containers of 35 feet from Newark, New Jersey to Houston, Texas.
1957: McLean Industries converts some vessels to carry containers only. The first full-celled container ship Gateway City begins service.
1960: Pan Atlantic name changes to Sea-Land
1969: McLean sold controlling interest in Sea-Land to R.J.Reynolds
1986: CSX Corporation buys Sea-Land
1999: A.P.Moller Group buys Sea-Land Service, after a short period of ownership by CSX Corporation
2001: McLean dies at the age of 87
