The Box How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger Second Edition with a new chapter by the author (4, 2016) | Marc Levinson

Princeton University Press

Transportindustri > Industri og industrielle studier > Økonomi, finans, erhvervsliv og ledelse ,

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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 stor…