The Box By Marc Levinson epub torrent

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

By Marc Levinson

Published by Princeton University Press in 2008

Tags: nonfiction, business, economic history, shipping, commodity history

EPUB, Retail, 356 pages, English (1400828589)

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 devastated waterfront communities, reshaped manufacturing, destroyed centuries-old ports, and created massive new ports where there were none before. The Box tells the dramatic story of how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur, Malcom McLean, turned containerization from an impractical idea into a phenomenon that slashed transportation costs and made the boom in global trade possible.

Marc Levinson is an economist in New York and author of three previous books