The Box

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How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author

By:

Marc Levinson

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Paperback / softback

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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 dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the swe

Author Biography:

Marc Levinson is an economist in Washington, DC. He was formerly a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, an economist at a leading investment bank, and finance and economics editor at The Economist.

Release date Australia

April 5th, 2016

Author

Marc Levinson

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Edition

2nd Revised edition

Illustrations

1 halftone. 1 line illus. 6 tables.

Pages

544

Dimensions

127x203x38

ISBN-13

9780691170817

Product ID

24077837

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