TY  - BOOK
AU  - Levinson,Marc
TI  - The box: how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger 
SN  - 0691170819
AV  - TA1215 .L47 2016
U1  - 387.5/442 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Containerization
KW  - History
KW  - McLean, Malcolm Purcell
KW  - 1913-2001
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The world the box made -- Gridlock on the docks -- The trucker -- The system -- The battle for New York's port -- Union disunion -- Setting the standard -- Takeoff -- Vietnam -- Ports in a storm -- Boom and bust -- The bigness complex -- The shippers' revenge -- Just in time -- Adding value
N2  - 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
ER  -