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Marc Levinson is an economist, historian, and journalist specializing in trade, finance, and economic history. He has written extensively on globalization and the evolution of modern industry, and previously served as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Known for: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
This book explores the history and transformative impact of the shipping container on global trade and the world economy. Marc Levinson traces how a simple metal box revolutionized transportation, reduced costs, and reshaped industries, cities, and international commerce. Through detailed historical analysis, he shows how containerization enabled globalization and changed the way goods move around the world.
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Pre-container shipping: Description of the inefficiencies, costs, and logistical challenges of traditional cargo handling before the 1950s.
Before containers, shipping was a tangle of inefficiencies inherited from centuries of maritime habit. Cargo moved in small pieces: barrels of whiskey, bales of cotton, sacks of grain, wooden crates filled by hand. Each item had to be lifted individually from trucks or rail wagons onto ships, stowed...
From The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Malcom McLean’s innovation: The origin story of the modern shipping container and McLean’s vision for standardized, intermodal transport.
Malcom McLean was not born into the shipping world. He ran a trucking company, moving tobacco and textiles up and down the American East Coast. But in 1937, standing at a dock in North Carolina, he watched his trucks waiting for days to unload their cargo onto ships. He realized the problem was not ...
From The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
About Marc Levinson
Marc Levinson is an economist, historian, and journalist specializing in trade, finance, and economic history. He has written extensively on globalization and the evolution of modern industry, and previously served as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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