MARITIME & LOGISTICS BOOKS - MARITIME | TRANSPORT INSURANCE

• Tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely accepted and far-reaching economic consequences of the sharp decline in transport costs that containerization brought about
• Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the first container voyage
• First and complete history of shipping containers
• Recounts how the drive and imagination of Malcolm McLean, returned containers an impractical idea into a massive industry
• Shows how the container changed the economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York and London and fueling the growth of previously obscure ones like Oakland
• Paved the way for Asia to become the worlds workshop and brought consumers an unimaginable variety of products at low prices worldwide
• and more

• Preface to the Paperback Edition
• Acknowledgments
• The World the Box Made
• Gridlock on the Docks
• The Trucker
• The System
• The Battle for New York's Port
• Union Disunion
• Setting the Standard
• Takeoff
• Vietnam
• Ports in a Storm
• Boom and Bust
• The Bigness Complex
• The Shippers' Revenge
• Just in Time
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

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