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Matson Navigation Company
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container crane

Shoreside container handling equipment is introduced in 1959, much of it designed by the company's engineering staff, including the huge-A frame gantry crane that becomes a prototype of container cranes worldwide.

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Page last modified: Thu March 17, 2011