- History, Containerization, International economic integration, International economic relations
In 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.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and cool.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Marc Levinson
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 395
- Publisher
- 日経BP社, Princeton University Press
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781400880751
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“On April 26, 1956, a crane lifted fifty-eight aluminum truck bodies aboard an aging tanker ship moored in Newark, New Jersey.”
American economist, historian, and journalist NOTE: LoC uses two different identities for the same author (saying "Email from Library of Congress (Paul Frank), September 23, 2020(per communication from Marc Levinson, use the access point Levinson, Marc, 1953- for works he wrote in his capacity as CRS [Congressional Research Service] staff member. For his other works, use the access point Levinson, Marc)"), but Wikidata and Open Library treat him as a single author. Levinson, Marc https://id.loc.gov/authorities/no2020111414 Levinson, Marc, 1953- https://id.loc.gov/authorities/n88063626
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