Box Boats : : How Container Ships Changed the World / / Brian J. Cudahy.
Fifty years ago—on April 26, 1956—the freighter Ideal X steamed from Berth 26 in Port Newark, New Jersey. Flying the flag of the Pan-Atlantic Steamship Company, she set out for Houston with an unusual cargo: 58 trailer trucks lashed to her top deck. But they weren’t trucks—they were steel containers...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022] ©2008 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 50 Illustrations, black and white |
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