The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author

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.--Page 4 de la couverture.

• | Author: Marc Levinson
• | Publisher: Princeton University Press
• | Publication Date: April 05, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 544 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0691170819
• | ISBN-13: 9780691170817