The box : how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger / Marc Levinson.

Main entry:

Levinson, Marc, author.

Title & Author:

The box : how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger / Marc Levinson.

Edition:

Second edition.

Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]
©2016

Description:

xx, 516 pages ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-489) and index.
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 -- Adding value.

Summary:

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 reshaped manufacturing. But the container didn't just happen. Its adoption required huge sums of money, years of high-stakes bargaining, and delicate negotiation on standards. Now with a new chapter, The Box tells the dramatic story of how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur turned containerization from an impractical idea into a phenomenon that transformed economic geography, slashed transportation costs, and made the boom in global trade possible. -- from back cover.

ISBN:

9780691170817 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0691170819 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

Subject:

Containerization History.
Shipping History.
Trucking History.
McLean, Malcolm Purcell, 1913-2001.
Camionnage Histoire.
Trucking.
Shipping.
Containerization.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

How the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292609
Call No.: BIB 236970
Status: Available

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