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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World... by Levinson, Marc Hardback

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Title
The Box - How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller an...
Book Title
The Box - How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller an...
ISBN
0691123241
EAN
9780691123240
Binding
Hardback
Date of Publication
20060409
Release Title
The Box - How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller an...
Artist
Levinson, Marc
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Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Subject Area
Natural Science
Language
English
Publication Name
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Item Height
235mm
Author
Marc Levinson
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
680g
Number of Pages
392 Pages

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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.

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Princeton University Press
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9780691123240
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Subject Area
Natural Science
Author
Marc Levinson
Publication Name
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
392 Pages

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235mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
680g

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Marc Levinson
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