TY  - BOOK
AU  - Levinson,Marc
TI  - The box: how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger 
SN  - 9780691170817 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - TA 1215 L665b 2016
U1  - 387.5/442 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - McLean, Malcolm Purcell, 
KW  - Containerization
KW  - History
KW  - Contenedorización (carga)
KW  - Logística
N1  - 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
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  -