The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (992 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00I51PQZU |
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| Number of Pages | : | 122 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Outstanding and comprehensive discussion of everything about, and resulting from, the shipping container. Bayard B. OUTSTANDING! This book discusses everything about the origin, development, and consequences of the shipping container box. It discusses it's early attempts in the 1920s through the 1950s, it's revolutionary development by Malcom McLane in the 1950s and 1960s, and the world - wide economic and social consequences. It gives a thorough presentation of how some long - established ports such as the London east end, the New York Manhattan and Broo. The original "Internet of Things" I enjoy "how stuff works" books and this one delivered!Container shipping is a business-to-business technology. Few consumers have ever directly sent or received a TEU container. Thus, one of the transformative technologies of the 20th century has gotten relatively little public attention.The technology itself is straightforward: put a lot of cargo in a large box (20 feet or The original "Internet of Things" Mec I enjoy "how stuff works" books and this one delivered!Container shipping is a business-to-business technology. Few consumers have ever directly sent or received a TEU container. Thus, one of the transformative technologies of the 20th century has gotten relatively little public attention.The technology itself is straightforward: put a lot of cargo in a large box (20 feet or 40 feet long), seal the box, move the box over the world transporta. 0 feet long), seal the box, move the box over the world transporta. The shipping container killed Detroit. I found 'The Box' was absolutely fascinating. The story of the shipping container may have been largely ignored, but it explains so much about the onset of globalisation in late 20th century.Until the mid 1960s, ocean freight was transported in breakbulk ships; the cargo manually jammed into the ships' holds by teams of longshoremen. The process was laborious and time consuming. Major port cities like New York and London were structured arou
Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York and London and fueling the growth of previously obscure ones, such as Oakland. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. Ultimately, it took McLean's success in supplying U.S. forces in Vietnam to persuade the world of the container's potential. It required years of high-stakes bargaining with two of the titans of organized labor, Harry Bridges and Teddy Gleason, as well as delicate negotiations on standards that made it possible for almost any container to travel on any truck or train or ship. It recounts how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur, Malcom McLean, turned containerization from an impractical idea into a massive industry that slashed the cost of transporting goods around the world and made the boom in global trade possible. In April 1956, a refi