Box How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

Name: Box How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
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ISBN: 9780691136400

ISBN-10: 0691136408

ISBN-13: 9780691136400

Edition: 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Marc Levinson

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In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible.The Boxtells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about. Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the first container voyage, this is the first comprehensive history of the shipping container. It recounts how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur, Malcom McLean, turned…

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List price: $20.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 1/27/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface to the Paperback Edition


Acknowledgments



The World the Box Made



Gridlock on the Docks



The Trucker



The System



The Battle for New York's Port



Union Disunion



Setting the Standard



Takeoff



Vietnam



Ports in a Storm



Boom and Bust



The Bigness Complex



The Shippers' Revenge



Just in Time


Abbreviations


Notes


Bibliography


Index