The Box : : How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author / / Marc Levinson.
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 decad...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Second with a new chapter by the author |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (544 p.) :; 1 halftone. 1 line illus. 6 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments to the Second Edition
- Chapter 1. The World the Box Made
- Chapter 2. Gridlock on the Docks
- Chapter 3. The Trucker
- Chapter 4. The System
- Chapter 5. The Battle for New York's Port
- Chapter 6. Union Disunion
- Chapter 7. Setting the Standard
- Chapter 8. Takeoff
- Chapter 9. Vietnam
- Chapter 10. Ports in a Storm
- Chapter 11. Boom and Bust
- Chapter 12. The Bigness Complex
- Chapter 13. The Shippers' Revenge
- Chapter 14. Just in Time
- Chapter 15. Adding Value
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index