The world the box made -- Gridlock on the docks -- The trucker -- The system -- The battle for New York's port -- Union …

We quantify the effect of container technology on transport costs and trade by estimating the modal choice between … containerization and breakbulk shipping using micro-level trade data. The model is motivated by novel facts that relate container usage … to shipment, destination and firm characteristics. We find container transport to have a higher first-mile cost and a …

the world of the container's potential. Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the …, the container paved the way for Asia to become the world's workshop and brought consumers a previously unimaginable …In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest …