Description: 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 reshaped manufacturing. But the container didn't just happen. Its adoption required huge sums of money, years of high-stakes bargaining, and delicate negotiation on standards. Now with a new chapter, The Box tells the dramatic story of how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur turned containerization from an impractical idea into a phenomenon that transformed economic geography, slashed transportation costs, and made the boom in global trade possible. -- from back cover.
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Edition: 2
Book Title: Box : How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a New Chapter by the Author
Number of Pages: 544 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 2016
Topic: Industrial Design / Packaging, Commerce, Industries / Transportation
Item Height: 1.4 in
Features: Revised
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics
Item Weight: 17 Oz
Author: Marc Levinson
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
