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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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.
- In logistics, standardized containers and pallets fungibilized loads, replacing item-by-item handling with 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.
- Containerization is essentially this protocol scaled to the world's freight.
- Standard Packaging
- Malcom McLean's insight was to standardize not the cargo but its container — a steel box of fixed dimensions and corner fittings that a crane could lift, a ship could stack, and a truck chassis or rail car could carry unchanged.
This sourceDescribes McLean's containerization system as standardizing a liftable and stackable box that moves unchanged among ships, truck chassis, and rail cars.
- Malcom McLean's insight was to standardize not the cargo but its container — a steel box of fixed dimensions and corner fittings that a crane could lift, a ship could stack, and a truck chassis or rail car could carry unchanged.
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