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The Box How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author

Marc Levinson

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.

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It was discussed as a defining work on the process of containerization, and its contents were referenced in the context of the role of Oakland in the early days of container shipping.

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And as I was reading this defining work on this process of containerization called The Box by a guy named Mark Levinson, who's in the series,

— Episode: Containers

Episode: Containers

It was discussed as a defining work on the process of containerization, and its contents were referenced in the context of the role of Oakland in the early days of container shipping.

"

And as I was reading this defining work on this process of containerization called The Box by a guy named Mark Levinson, who's in the series,

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