The most consequential international organisation of the last century is the one nobody has heard of: it standardised the shipping container.

Historian of maritime and continental empires who taught strategy at the U.S

And then for those of you who are skeptical about international organizations, here's one you've never heard of. The International Organization for Standardization then standardized these container sizes to fit one if by truck, two if by railway cars, and thousands if by sea. And this just plummets transport costs.