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The box = how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The box / Marc Levinson
其他題名:	how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger /
作者:	Levinson, Marc
面頁冊數:	1 online resource
標題:	Containerization - History -
ISBN:	9781400880751

The box = how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger /
Levinson, Marc

The box how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger /[electronic resource] :Marc Levinson - Second edition - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index

The world the box made -- Gridlock on the docks -- The trucker -- The system -- The battle for New York's port -- Union disunion -- Setting the standard -- Takeoff -- Vietnam -- Ports in a storm -- Boom and bust -- The bigness complex -- The shippers' revenge -- Just in time -- Adding value

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 sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about. But the container didn't just happen. Its adoption required huge sums of money, both from private investors and from ports that aspired to be on the leading edge of a new technology. It required years of high- stakes bargaining with two of the titans of organized labor, Harry Bridges and Teddy Gleason, as well as delicate negotiations on standards that made it possible for almost any container to travel on any truck or train or ship

In English

ISBN: 9781400880751Subjects--Topical Terms:

1176309
Containerization
--HistoryIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

761329
Electronic books

LC Class. No.: TA1215 / .L47 2016eb

Dewey Class. No.: 387.5/442

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520 $a Ultimately, it took McLean's success in supplying U.S. forces in Vietnam to persuade the world of the container's potential. Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York and London and fueling the growth of previously obscure ones, such as Oakland. By making shipping so cheap that industry could locate factories far from its customers, the container paved the way for Asia to become the world's workshop and brought consumers a previously unimaginable variety of low-cost products from around the globe. Published in hardcover on the fiftieth anniversary of the first container voyage, this is the first comprehensive history of the shipping container. Now with a new chapter,
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