Editing Container crane (section)

== History ==
Cranes were used in harbors starting in the [[Middle Ages]] (see [[Crane (machine)#Harbour usage|crane: harbor usage]] and [[list of historical harbour cranes]]). Modern inter-modal [[containerization]] emerged in the mid-1950s from transport strategies developed in the Second World War and the Korean War, and the development of specialized cranes paralleled developments in containerization.

The first container crane was built by [[PACECO Corp.]] for Matson at the Encinal Terminal in Alameda, California in 1959.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 5, 1983 |title=The American Society of Mechanical Engineers Dedicates an International Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark: The PACECO Container Crane |url=https://www.asme.org/wwwasmeorg/media/resourcefiles/aboutasme/who%20we%20are/engineering%20history/landmarks/85-paceco-container-crane.pdf |access-date=May 31, 2022 |website=The American Society of Mechanical Engineers}}</ref>