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Box Boats: How Container Ships Changed the World
Box Boats How Container Ships Changed the World
Author: Brian Cudahy
Fifty years ago?on April 26, 1956?the freighter Ideal X steamed from Berth 26 in Port Newark, New Jersey. Flying the flag of the Pan-Atlantic Steamship Company, she set out for Houston with an unusual cargo: 58 trailer trucks lashed to her top deck.But they weren?t trucks?they were steel containers removed from their running gear, waiting to be ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780823225699
ISBN-10: 0823225690
Publication Date: 1/1/2008
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Fordham University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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