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

trade relies on container shipping. This paper introduces a new monthly index of the volume of container trade to and from …%. The difference is mainly accounted for by unexpected reductions in frictions in the container shipping market. …Since the 1970s, exports and imports of manufactured goods have been the engine of international trade and much of that …

beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the … consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about. But the container didn't just happen …In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest …