BOX: HOW THE SHIPPING CONTAINER MADE THE WORLD SMALLER AND THE WORLD ECONOMY BIGGER
by LEVINSON, MARC
List Price: HK$ 237.00
¡@ISBN
9780691123240
¡@Subject
BUSINESS & FINANCE
¡@Publisher
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS USA
¡@Publication
2006
¡@Edition
Hardcover
¡@Version
Original
¡@Description
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 decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about.
