The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

Levinson, M. (2006). The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. Princeton University Press.

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Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2006

Link

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Primes

• Fungibility
  • In logistics, standardized containers and pallets fungibilized loads, replacing item-by-item handling with class-level handling.

    This sourceDocuments how the standardized shipping container fungibilized freight, replacing item-by-item handling with interchangeable class-level handling.

Mechanisms

• Intermodal Handling Protocol
  • Containerization is essentially this protocol scaled to the world's freight.

    This sourceDocuments standardized containerization as a system that transformed freight transport at global scale.

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