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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. 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. Published in hardcover on the fiftieth anniversary of the first container voyage, this is the first comprehensive history of the shipping container. Now with a new chapter, The Box tells the dramatic story of how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur turned containerization from an impractical idea into a phenomenon that transformed economic geography, slashed transportation costs, and made the boom in global trade possible.

Containerization --- Combined transport --- Container transportation --- Intermodal transportation --- Containers --- Freight and freightage --- History. --- McLean, Malcolm Purcell,

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This book examines the competitiveness of Mexican and Canadian ports with U.S. West Coast ports; discusses the history and the theories of cargo diversion and of the Harbor Maintenance Tax (HMT); reviews ocean freight rates, transit times and rail charges; and examines other potential relevant factors influencing the movement of cargo.

Containerization. --- Freight and freightage. --- Affreightment --- Cargo --- Freight handling --- Freight transportation --- Freightage --- Transportation --- Materials handling --- Combined transport --- Container transportation --- Intermodal transportation --- Containers --- Freight and freightage --- Freight

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Transport. Traffic --- 656.073.2 --- Freight handling --- 656.073.2 Freight handling --- Containerization --- Freight and freightage --- Affreightment --- Cargo --- Freight transportation --- Freightage --- Transportation --- Materials handling --- Combined transport --- Container transportation --- Intermodal transportation --- Containers --- Freight --- Freight and freightage.

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Turkey’s continuing economic expansion depends on the diversification of its transport modes and especially on the development of efficient multimodal services. Its role as a hub for Europe, Asia, and the Middle East and as a facilitator of global exchange will be enhanced with a strategy and measures to support a range of intermodal logistic and transport services. This work analyses the current situation and sets forth some of the actions and policies needed to stimulate the development of a truly multimodal transport system.

Containerization --- Transportation --- Transport multimodal --- Transport --- Business & Economics --- Transportation Economics --- Turkey --- Public transportation --- Transportation, Primitive --- Transportation companies --- Transportation industry --- Combined transport --- Container transportation --- Intermodal transportation --- Economic aspects --- Locomotion --- Commerce --- Communication and traffic --- Storage and moving trade --- Containers --- Freight and freightage

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"The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there, clanking on the docks just out of sight & 90% of the goods and materials that move around the globe do so in shipping containers. It is an absolutely ubiquitous object, even if most of us have no direct contact with it. But what is this thing? Where has it been, and where is it going? Craig Martin's book illuminates the "development of containerization"--Including design history, standardization, aesthetics, and a surprising speculative discussion of the futurity of shipping containers."--Publisher description.

Containerization. --- Freight and freightage. --- Godstransporter. --- Unitized cargo systems. --- Containerization --- Unitized cargo systems --- Combined transport --- Container transportation --- Intermodal transportation --- Containers --- Freight and freightage --- Container cargo --- Container-ship operations --- Palletized cargo systems --- Unit-container systems --- Cargo handling --- Shipping --- E-books --- Cultural studies