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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson (Paperback, 2008)
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It recounts how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur, Malcom McLean, turned containerization from an impractical idea into a massive industry that slashed the cost of transporting goods around the world and made the boom in global trade possible.But the container didn't just happen.
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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 Box tells 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 containerization from an impractical idea into a massive industry that slashed the cost of transporting goods around the world and made the boom in global trade possible.But the container didn't just happen. Its adoption required huge sums of money, both from private investors and from ports that aspired to be on the leading edge of a new technology. It required years of high-stakes bargaining with two of the titans of organized labor, Harry Bridges and Teddy Gleason, as well as delicate negotiations on standards that made it possible for almost any container to travel on any truck or train or ship. Ultimately, it took McLean's success in supplying U.S. forces in Vietnam to persuade the world of the container's potential.Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York and London and fueling the growth of previously obscure ones, such as Oakland. By making shipping so cheap that industry could locate factories far from its customers, the container paved the way for Asia to become the world's workshop and brought consumers a previously unimaginable variety of low-cost products from around the globe.Product Identifiers
PublisherPrinceton University Press
ISBN-139780691136400
eBay Product ID (ePID)89070380
Product Key Features
Number of Pages400 Pages
Publication NameThe Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaNatural Science
AuthorMarc Levinson
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height235 mm
Item Weight539 g
Item Width152 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorMarc Levinson
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- 13 Apr, 2018
Interesting but USA oriented
I got this book for the technical aspects, so the chapter on standard was the one for me. However the other chapters appear to be all about the personalities and politics of influential figures in the USA.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
