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Re-order Paragraphs

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Re-order Paragraphs

Arrange the sentences into the correct order.

Put the sentences in the correct order:

  1. That cost collapse is now widely credited with enabling the modern era of globalized manufacturing, in which components are sourced and assembled across multiple continents.
  2. Shipping lines soon realized that this efficiency made transporting goods across oceans cheaper than moving them by truck across a single country.
  3. Because these containers could be lifted directly by crane from truck to ship without unpacking, port turnaround times fell dramatically and labor costs followed.
  4. In 1956, a trucking entrepreneur named Malcom McLean addressed this bottleneck by loading fifty-eight standardized metal containers onto a converted tanker ship.
  5. Before the mid-1950s, loading and unloading cargo ships was a slow, labor-intensive process, with dockworkers manually handling loose crates, barrels, and sacks one at a time.