The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, Second Edition with a new chapter by the author
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.40 (519 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691170819 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 544 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Marc Levinson is an economist in Washington, DC. . He was formerly a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, an economist at a leading investment bank, and finance and economics editor at The Economist
Outstanding and comprehensive discussion of everything about, and resulting from, the shipping container. 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. 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 st. Mostyn said 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 "The shipping container killed Detroit." according to Mostyn. 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 team. 0th century.Until the mid 1960s, ocean freight was transported in breakbulk ships; the cargo manually jammed into the ships' holds by team
But the container didn't just happen. 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.. Published in hardcover on the fiftieth anniversary of the first container voyage, this is the first comprehensive history of the shipping container. Its adoption required huge sums of money, both from private investors and from ports that aspired to be on the leading edge of a new technology. Ultimately, it took McLean's success in supplying U.S. By making shipping so cheap that industry could locate factories far from its customers, the container paved the way for Asia to become the world's workshop and brought consumers a previously unimaginable variety of low-cost products from around the globe. It required years of high-stakes bargaining with two of the titans of organized labor, Harry Bridges and Teddy Gl
Not bad for something so simple and self-contained."--Tim W. It changed the dynamics and economics of where goods are made and shipped to."--Bill Virgin, Seattle Post-Intelligencer"Excellent."--J Bradford DeLong, The Edge Financial Daily"An engrossing read. Hurst, Strategy + Business See full review bit/TheBox-Strategy-Hurst"The Box is an engrossing read. Along the way, even the most foresighted people made mistakes and lost millions. The shipping container didn't just rearrange the shipping industry, or make winners of some ports (Seattle and Tacoma among them). Even after these opponents are dispatched, technological and economic uncertainty plague the entrepreneur just as much as the vaunted 'first-mover