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BookmarkIn April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston.
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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.
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.
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