The box : how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger / Marc Levinson.

By:

Levinson, Marc

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2016Edition: Second editionDescription: xx, 516 pages ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780691170817 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0691170819 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

387.5/442

LOC classification:

TA 1215 L665b 2016

Contents:

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

Summary: 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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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	TA 1215 L665b 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000173568

Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-489) 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

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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