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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:
- Consequently, container shipping is often credited with enabling the globalized supply chains that define modern manufacturing and trade.
- This dramatic increase in efficiency lowered the cost of shipping goods internationally, making it economically viable to manufacture products far from where they would eventually be sold.
- Because the container's dimensions were consistent across the industry, ports could install cranes designed to handle it, cutting loading times from days to mere hours.
- This inefficiency was largely resolved by the invention of the standardized shipping container, a uniform steel box that could be lifted directly between ships, trucks, and trains.
- Before the mid-twentieth century, loading and unloading cargo ships was a slow, labor-intensive process that involved handling goods piece by piece.