7F-028-401 40ft High Cube Container Hapag-Lloyd HLBU 213247 0 45G1Expected Delivery July 2026 (Subject to Change at Manufacturer's Discretion). Before shipping containers became standard, goods would be loaded on to ships by teams of people in crates, barrels or sacs. This was hard and time consuming work as they would have to plan out where items could be stowed and this could take days to load a ship. The idea to have a standardised box that could be easily handled by different modes of transport has been around