The Box (book)

The Box (book)

"The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger" is a book by Marc Levinson charting the historic rise of the shipping container and how it changed the economic landscape on a major scale.

The book inspired the name of a project by the BBC in which they are tracking a container for a year [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7600180.stm BBC News] , The Box takes off on global journey, 8 September 2008] .

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*ISBN 0-691-12324-1, Princeton University Press


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