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"Looks at the history of the shipping container and how it revolutionized the global economy."@en
"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. 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.--From publisher description."@en
"Telling the story of the shipping container's creation - and the economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about - this book offers a history of the revolution in international trade which ultimately heralded the age of globalization."
"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 containerisation brought about. This edition has a new preface by the author dated 2007."
"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. Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the first container voyage, this is the first comprehensive history of the shipping container. It recounts how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur, Malcom McLean, turned containerization from an impractical idea into a massive industry that slashed the cost of transporting goods around the world and made the boom in global trade possible. 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. 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."@en
"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. Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the first container voyage, this is the first comprehensive history of the shipping container. It reco."

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"集装箱改变世界 / The box / Marc Levinson"
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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"@en
"The box : how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger"
"The box : la scatola che ha cambiato il mondo"@it
"The box : la scatola che ha cambiato il mondo"
"箱子 : 貨櫃造就的全球貿易與現代經濟生活"
"The box : how the shipping container made the world smaller and the economy bigger"
"Xiang zi : huo gui zao jiu de quan qiu mao yi yu xian dai jing ji sheng huo"
"The Box How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (New in Paper)"
"The box : comment le conteneur a changé le monde"
"The box : how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger : with a new preface by the author"
"The Box How The Shipping Container Made The World Smaller And The World Economy Bigger (New In Paper)"@en
"Ji zhuang xiang gai bian shi jie / The box / Marc Levinson"
"The box how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger"@en
"The box how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger"

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