The box

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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. Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the first container voyage, this is the first comprehensive history of the shipping container. It recounts how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur, Malcom McLean, turned containerization from an impractical idea into a massive industry that slashed the cost of transporting goods around the world and made the boom in global trade possible.But the container didn't just happen. 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. It required years of high-stakes bargaining with two of the titans of organized labor, Harry Bridges and Teddy Gleason, as well as delicate negotiations on standards that made it possible for almost any container to travel on any truck or train or ship. Ultimately, it took McLean's success in supplying U.S. forces in Vietnam to persuade the world of the container's potential.Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York and London and fueling the growth of previously obscure ones, such as Oakland. 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.

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The Box

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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 Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

Outside the Box – How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas

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Globalization has profoundly shaped the world we live in yet its rise was neither inevitable nor planned it is also one of the most contentious issues of our time while it may have made goods less expensive it has also sent massive flows of money across borders and shaken the global balance of p Uiterlijk 18 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

The Box

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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 Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 20 maart 2006

Aantal pagina's: 400

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Marc Levinson

Tweede Auteur: Marc Levinson

Hoofduitgeverij: Princeton University Press

Originele titel: The Box

Editie: New title

Product breedte: 152 mm

Product hoogte: 25 mm

Product lengte: 229 mm

Studieboek: Ja

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Verpakkingsgewicht: 685 g

EAN: 9780691123240

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