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Languages : en
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The Impact of Containerization on the US Economy
Author: The Impact of Containerization on the U.S. Economy
Author: Matson Research CorporationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Containerization
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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The Impact of Containerization on the U.S. Economy
Author: The impact of containerization on the U.S. economy
Author: The Impact of Containerization on the U.S. Economy
Author: Globalization Contained
Author: L. HoovestalPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137315911
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Examining the global significance of the freight container, with particular emphasis on the perspectives of the US and China, Globalization Contained considers the implications of the freight container as an agent of change for the future of the global economy and global security.
The 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.
Evaluation of Potential Effects of U.S. Freight Transportation Advances on Highway Requirements
Author: Stanford Research InstitutePublisher:
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Category : Highway research
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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The Impact of Marine Containerization on the United States Transportation System
Author: Manalytics, incPublisher:
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Category : Containerization
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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MARAD
Author: United States. Maritime AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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