The Box
How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author
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Book information
Princeton University Press
USA
2016
2 Revised edition
Paperback
544
Heavy
312628
978-0-691-17081-7
0-691-17081-9
Shipping industries
Annotation
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 swe
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