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The Box : How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
The Box How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Author: Marc Levinson
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, a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691123240
ISBN-10: 0691123241
Publication Date: 3/20/2006
Pages: 390
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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