owing debt of $1.3 billion. In 1991, at 78, McLean founded Trailer Bridge, Inc., which operates between the US mainland (Jacksonville, Florida), Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. McLean also developed non-maritime inventions, including a means of lifting a patient from a stretcher onto a hospital bed. Death McLean died at his home on the East Side of Manhattan on May 25, 2001, age 87, of heart failure. His death prompted Norman Y. Mineta to make the following statement: In an editorial shortly after his death, Baltimore Sun stated that "he ranks next to Robert Fulton as the greatest revolutionary in the history of maritime trade." Forbes Magazine called McLean "one of the few men who changed the world." On the morning of McLean's funeral, container ships around the world blew their whistles in his honor. Honors Fortune inducted McLean into its Business Hall of Fame in 1982. In 1995, American Heritage named him one of the ten outstanding innovators of the past 40 years. In 2000, he was named Man of the Century by the International Maritime Hall of Fame. McLean was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1982. In 2000, McLean received an honorary degree from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. McLean is the only person to found three companies that were later listed on the New York Stock Exchange (plus two others on the NASDAQ). Trailer Bridge, Inc., which McLean founded in 1992, annually awards the Malcom P. McLean Innovative Spirit Award. The annual McLean Award recognizes an outstanding graduating student at George Mason University, selected by professors. McLean was inducted into the North Carolina Transportation Hall of Fame in 2006. Notes and references Footnotes References Marc Levinson. (2016, 2nd ed.). - The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. - Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Marc Levinson. (2020). Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas. Princeton University Press. Brian J. Cudahy. (2006). - Box Boats: How Container Ships Changed the World. - Fordham University Press Frank Broeze. (2002). - "The Globalization of the Oceans: Containerization from the 1950s to the Present". - International Maritime Economic History Association. The Container Revolution at sname.org External links Photo of Ideal-X, the first container ship Ideal-X and McLean . "The Box That Built the Modern World: How shipping containers made distance irrelevant."