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Title The box : how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger / Marc Levinson.
Author Levinson, Marc, author.
Edition Second edition.
Publisher Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2016.


Status Loan Type Location Shelf-mark
 In Library  Standard  Library Level 5  Engineering N285 2016-L  

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Description xx, 516 pages , 21 cm
ISBN 9780691170817 paperback
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The world the box made -- Gridlock on the docks -- The trucker -- The system -- The battle for New York's port -- Union disunion -- Setting the standard -- Takeoff -- Vietnam -- Ports in a storm -- Boom and bust -- The bigness complex -- The shippers' revenge -- Just in time -- Adding value.
Library Class Engineering N285
Subject Containerization -- History.
McLean, Malcolm Purcell, 1913-2001.

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