{"product_id":"untitled-jun30_14-05-47","title":"The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger\nBook by Marc Levinson","description":"\u003cul data-action=\"a-tabs\" class=\"a-tabs a-declarative productInfoTabs\" data-a-tabs='{\"name\": \"product_info_tabs\"}' role=\"tablist\"\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"productInfoTabHeader_drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionEditorialsHeader\" class=\"a-tab-heading productInfoTab productInfoTabCount-2 celwidget t-prnt t-full\" data-a-tab-name=\"tab1\" role=\"presentation\" data-cel-widget=\"productInfoTabHeader_drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionEditorialsHeader\" data-csa-c-id=\"n4fvp3-q0ie20-aeq81b-fws6t3\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Box-Shipping-Container-Smaller-Economy\/dp\/0691136408#\" role=\"tab\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionEditorialsHeader_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionEditorialsHeader\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionEditorialsHeader\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionEditorialsHeader_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-cel-widget=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionEditorialsHeader_feature_div\" data-csa-c-id=\"305w53-i0j0o7-kg1hwa-lrlqpm\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-base a-color-base productInfoTabHeaderText\"\u003eReseñas Editoriales\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"productDescription_feature_div\" data-feature-name=\"productDescription\" data-template-name=\"productDescription\" class=\"a-section feature\" data-cel-widget=\"productDescription_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-a-name=\"tab0\" class=\"a-box a-box-tab a-tab-content productInfoTabContent t-prnt t-full\" role=\"tabpanel\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-box-inner\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"productInfoTabExpander0\" data-a-expander-name=\"tabExpander0\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"500\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container productInfoTabExpander\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-cel-widget=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div\" data-csa-c-id=\"gczpnx-2vvwae-ah2961-9uq6ov\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Box\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished on the fiftieth anniversary of the first container voyage, this is the first comprehensive history of the shipping container. It recounts how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur, Malcom McLean, turned containerization from an impractical idea into a massive industry that slashed the cost of transporting goods around the world and made the boom in global trade possible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing 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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Book Lovers BD","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":55291147190563,"sku":null,"price":410.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":55291147223331,"sku":null,"price":540.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":55291147256099,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/5872\/2083\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_1a2ee35e-83fa-4153-96f3-872e332ae6b1.jpg?v=1782807117","url":"https:\/\/www.bookloversbd.shop\/products\/untitled-jun30_14-05-47","provider":"Book Lovers BD","version":"1.0","type":"link"}