The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
by Marc Levinson · Princeton University Press
A history of container shipping from Malcom McLean's first converted tanker in 1956 onward, showing how a standardized steel box reshaped ports, labour, factory location and global trade costs, and why the industry stayed brutally cyclical.
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