Levinson, Marc
The box : how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger Marc Levinson - 2nd ed. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2016. - xx, 516 p. ; 21 cm.
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. -- from back cover.
9780691170817
2015024925
Containerization--History
McLean, Malcolm Purcell
387.5442 LE BO
The box : how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger Marc Levinson - 2nd ed. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2016. - xx, 516 p. ; 21 cm.
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. -- from back cover.
9780691170817
2015024925
Containerization--History
McLean, Malcolm Purcell
387.5442 LE BO