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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, Second Edition with a new chapter by the author
The Box How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger Second Edition with a new chapter by the author
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, and the ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691170817
ISBN-10: 0691170819
Publication Date: 3/28/2016
Pages: 544
Edition: Second with a new c
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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