Freight & Container Transportation

Freight & Container Transportation was a Sydney-based monthly trade magazine covering freight transport in Australia. It was published between May 1967 and June 1985.

History

Freight & Container Transportation was established in May 1967 by Frank Shennen of Shennen Publishing, which already published the trade magazines Railway Transportation and Truck & Bus Transportation. The magazine focused on the road, sea, and air freight industries in Australia.
The magazine's launch coincided with a transformative period in Australian freight transport. Australia had pioneered containerised shipping with the construction of, the world's first purpose-built fully-cellular container ship, which entered domestic service in 1964. International container shipping arrived in Australia in March 1969 when the Encounter Bay made its debut visit to Fremantle, marking Australia's entry into the global container revolution. By the mid-1960s, major Australian ports were preparing for the introduction of purpose-built cellular container ships on the Europe to Australia trade, a change that would prove more significant to commerce than the earlier transition from sail to steam.
The magazine ceased publication in June 1985. Its sister publication Railway Transportation had ceased a decade earlier in December 1974.