Levinson, Marc <br/><br/>
The box :  how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger / 
Marc Levinson. 
 - Second edition. 
 - xx, 516 pages ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-489) and index. 
<br/><br/>The world the box made<br/>Gridlock on the docks<br/>The trucker<br/>The system<br/>The battle for New York's port<br/>Union disunion<br/>Setting the standard<br/>Takeoff<br/>Vietnam<br/>Ports in a storm<br/>Boom and bust<br/>The bigness complex<br/>The shippers' revenge<br/>Just in time<br/>Adding value 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780691170817 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0691170819 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2015024925 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>McLean, Malcolm Purcell,  1913-2001 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Containerization--History.<br/>Contenedorización (carga) <br/>Logística 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TA 1215  / L665b 2016 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>387.5/442