The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger¶
Levinson, M. (2016). The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. Princeton University Press.
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- Containerization
- Logistics. The ISO shipping container — uniform external dimensions, corner castings, stacking interfaces — lets arbitrary cargo move from truck to crane to ship to crane to train without being touched, the single structural move that collapsed global freight costs and the literal source of the term.
This sourceDefinitive history of the ISO shipping container and the product-to-sum collapse of intermodal freight cost it produced; documents handlers engaging only the standardized exterior across truck, crane, ship, and rail.
- Logistics. The ISO shipping container — uniform external dimensions, corner castings, stacking interfaces — lets arbitrary cargo move from truck to crane to ship to crane to train without being touched, the single structural move that collapsed global freight costs and the literal source of the term.
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