TY - BOOK ID - 8038664 TI - The box : how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger PY - 2006 SN - 0691123241 9780691123240 9780691136400 0691136408 PB - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, DB - UniCat KW - AA / International- internationaal KW - 385.320 KW - economie, internationaal KW - geschiedkundige beschrijvingen KW - globalisering KW - handel, internationaal KW - standaardisatie KW - vervoer, containers KW - vervoer, goederen KW - Vervoer over zee: algemeenheden. KW - McLean, Malcom Purcell, 1912-2001 KW - Containerization KW - Geografie KW - History. KW - Economische geografie KW - Transport. KW - McLean, Malcolm Purcell, KW - Combined transport KW - Container transportation KW - Intermodal transportation KW - Containers KW - Freight and freightage KW - History KW - Vervoer over zee: algemeenheden KW - Conteneurisation KW - Histoire KW - Conteneurisation - Histoire KW - Containerization - History KW - McLean, Malcolm Purcell, - 1913-2001 KW - transport de marchandises KW - conteneur UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8038664 AB - 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. 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. ER -