Author: George DowniePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Containerization
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Jane's Freight Containers
Author: George DowniePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Containerization
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Jane's Freight Containers, 1977
Author: Key Book Service, IncorporatedPublisher:
ISBN: 9780531032626
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Janes Freight Containers
Author: OutletThe Box
Author: Marc LevinsonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400880750
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
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.
Jane's Airport Equipment
Author: Cataloged Serial Holdings
Author: National Defense University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Jane's Surface Skimmers
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ground-effect machines
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Contains current information on hovercraft and hydrofoils.
Nomination of Jane Holl Lute
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Marketing Research Report
Author: Cost of Whey-soy-drink Mix for Human Consumption
Author: Herbert Holms MoedePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soyfoods
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description