The two ships could not be deployed on this, modric jersey while United States Lines saw nothing in the cooperation between Newark and Tilbury proposed by Grace Lines and the container a passing modernity. Due to the cooperation within the conferences, European shipowners were able to offer a timetable with sufficient sailings, even on long routes that required many ships. Maersk and Evergreen were the main independent shipowners. In the first design these were general cargo ships, but this was quickly adapted. The first design was the C7-S-68c with 1178 TEU, followed by the C7-S-68d with 1210 TEU and finally the C7-S-68e with 1434 TEU. Existing shore cranes were not sufficient, so Matson ordered a new design A-frame container crane from Pacific Coast Engineering Company (Paceco), which was commissioned in 1959 at the Encinal Terminal in Alameda. 181 became the Sea-Land Venture and Sea-Land Economy and were supplemented by the Sea-Land Consumer and Sea-Land Producer acquired from Pacific Far East Lines (PFEL).

In 1969 they were replaced by the C5-S-78a Seabridge-class general cargo/ro-ro/container ships Mormacsea, Mormacsky, Mormacstar and Mormacsun, but the limited container capacity of 800 TEU soon proved insufficient and they were sold to American Export-Isbrandtsen Lines and Moore-McCormack withdrew from Atlantic service. Moore-McCormack was first with its C4-S-60a Constellation class Mormacargo, Mormaclynx, Mormacvega, Mormacdraco, Mormacaltair and Mormacrigel. In the 80s it was quiet around the club for a long time. The club could not continue on its momentum and was relegated. For example, the freight rate could account for about 25% of the price of the goods themselves and averaged 10% in the United States. This was therefore a greater trade barrier than the 7% import duties applicable in 1961, so that imports and exports were no longer attractive. However, the advantages of a much higher transhipment speed, lower transhipment costs and less damage and theft became increasingly apparent, so that containerization slowly continued. The first years of containerization took place in the United States, but between 1966 and 1976 it expanded further at a very fast pace.

In December 1993, Rocastle moved to Manchester City for £2,000,000 and as part of an exchange deal with City player David White, taking his place at Leeds. On January 14, 2018, Manchester City suffered their first-ever Premier League defeat of that season. The following 2009–10 season was no better with an eleventh-place finish. However, conferences were exempted by the European Union from the cartel prohibition laid down in Article 81 of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) since its inception in 1964 worked to address this problem and the 1974 Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences was an attempt to address the subordination. The initial plan was for the first two ships to operate the Atlantic service, after which containers destined for Asia would be taken by train, the land bridge system, to the US West Coast where the last two would carry them to Asia. Sea-Land in particular expanded, including a service between the east and west coasts of the United States via the Panama Canal, using the converted T3 tankers Elizabethport, Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Juan. In 1970, these ships were deployed on the service between the American West Coast and the Far East.

In addition to the liner conferences, there was also cross-trade, trade between countries other than the home country. Alaska Steamship Company was another shipping company that had experience with intermodal transport and now made the switch to the container with two converted Liberty's, the Tonsina and Nadina, but could not compete with Sea-Land on which Matson chartered the ships and Alaska Steam stopped in 1971 White Pass & Yukon Route started out on the Clifford J. Rogers with small containers, but in 1965 these were replaced by larger ones for which it had the Frank H. Brown built. Whereas shipping companies were able to distinguish themselves earlier in their cargo handling with breakbulk, the container became more of a commodity with associated lower margins. In 1956 he developed the metal container that revolutionized the traditional general cargo method of loading and unloading. On April 26, 1956, a converted McLean T2 tanker, the Ideal X, was loaded at Newark, New Jersey and departed for Houston, Texas with 58 35-foot containers on deck, in addition to its regular cargo of oil.