Introduction to The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
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...Apart from the contracted prices, there are also published prices for many routes, but some argue that these prices are hardly ever paid due to most prices being negotiated in specific contracts (Levinson, 2006)....
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...For an excellent study on the history of the shipping container we refer to Levinson (2006), who conducted a historical study and presents both anecdotal and statistical evidence on the impact of this technological revolution in logistics....
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...…Jersey”, which “five days later […] sailed into Houston, where fifty-eight trucks waited to take on the metal boxes and haul them to their destinations” (Levinson 2006), the world of container shipping has moved to a global trade which involves containers standardized at 20 and 40 feet, with fixed…...
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...The first specialized cellular containerships were delivered in 1968, and soon, the containerization process expanded over maritime and inland freight transport systems (Rodrigue and Notteboom 2009; Levinson 2006)....
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