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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and The World Economy Bigger Book

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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and The World Economy Bigger, 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 dramat, The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and The World Economy Bigger
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  • The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and The World Economy Bigger
  • Written by author Marc Levinson
  • Published by Princeton University Press, January 07, 2008
  • 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 dramat
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Preface to the Paperback Edition ix

Acknowledgments xv

Chapter 1: The World the Box Made 1

Chapter 2: Gridlock on the Docks 16

Chapter 3: The Trucker 36

Chapter 4: The System 54

Chapter 5: The Battle for New York's Port 76

Chapter 6: Union Disunion 101

Chapter 7: Setting the Standard 127

Chapter 8: Takeoff 150

Chapter 9: Vietnam 171

Chapter 10: Ports in a Storm 189

Chapter 11: Boom and Bust 212

Chapter 12: The Bigness Complex 231

Chapter 13: The Shippers' Revenge 245

Chapter 14: Just in Time 264

Abbreviations 279

Notes 281

Bibliography 343

Index 365


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