FOLLOWING successful pilot tests with key US retailers,APL will take delivery of the world's first "ocean-capatle"53-foot boxes on November 7. The first units will be deployed on APL's South China-LOs Angeles service.
 Having developed outsize containers in the 1980s,APL said its lastest innovation-Premium big-box service on a regular,weekly basis--has the potential to make a significant difference to the economics of Transpacific trade.
 The new,reinforced 53-foot boxes,which are built specifically for international trade,will enable cargo to be transported from factories in Asia to US destinations without trans-loading.