[PDF.09ah] 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

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 | #67865 in Books |  Princeton University Press |  2008-01-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x6.00 x1.00l,1.23 | File type: PDF | 400 pages

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||26 of 27 people found the following review helpful.| Didn't Really Deliver|By Andy in Washington|Shipping is always a subject that has fascinated me-from the Phoenicians to the Dutch and the Americans, the history of the world is the history of shipping. I had high hopes for this book, because I thought containerized shipping was one of the major technologies of the 20th century. Unfortunately, the book came up a little short.<|From Publishers Weekly|A book about the history of the shipping container? At first, one has to wonder why. (An eventuality not lost on the author, who muses "What is it about the container that is so important? Surely not the thing itself...the standard contain

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.

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