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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 sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about. Published on the fiftieth anniversary of th

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Author

Levinson, Marc

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691136400

Category

history

Subjects

Engineering, Fiction, History

Rating

3.87 / 5 (243 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14