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

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 decad...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Levinson, Marc, 1953- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2016.
Edición:Second edition.
Temas:
Containerization > History.
McLean, Malcolm Purcell, > 1913-2001.
TRANSPORTATION > Ships & Shipbuilding > Pictorial.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Transportation.
Containerization
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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