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Thursday, August 9, 2018

The Box by Marc Levinson


The box is the ubiquitous metal container that is seen at loading docks, on the back of semi-trucks, at harbors and wherever goods are transported.  According to Levinson, the container changed the worlds economy.

Surprisingly this non-fiction book was more interesting than I expected.  The introduction of shipping goods by containers revolutionized international shipping.  It changed the geographic aspects of commerce due to the location of ports acceptable to container ships.   The transshipping of containers via train and truck impacted the placement of factories, towns and jobs.  

Levinson offers a quite convincing argument for the world changing aspects of the not so simple container.

Web: http://www.marclevinson.net/?page_id=16

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