The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson

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

Marc Levinson

376 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction business economics history informative slow-paced
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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 dra...

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