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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. Marc Levinson:
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The Box as mentioned in this paper documents the history and extensive impact of a fundamental innovation in transportation and logistics (the shipping container) over the course of 14 chapters (278 pages of text, plus about a hundred pages of careful chapter notes and detailed references).Abstract:
There is much to like about Marc Levinson’s recent book, The Box. Over the course of 14 chapters (278 pages of text, plus about a hundred pages of careful chapter notes and detailed references), Levinson meticulously documents the history and extensive impact of a fundamental innovation in transportation and logistics—the shipping container. As Levinson points out early in the book, so many of the things that we take for granted today—from the Barbie doll to just-intime logistics—would not be possible without the container.read more
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The Multilateral Trade Regime: Which Way Forward? Report of the First Warwick Commission Coventry, UK: University of Warwick, 2007
TL;DR: The Multilateral Trade Regime: Which Way Forward? by the First Warwick Commission as mentioned in this paper, which was the first discussion of the multilateral trade regime, is a seminal work in the history of international trade.
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Level of competency needs assessment based on permenhub no. pm 7 of 2018 concerning the master plan for skkni development transportation sector
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The Multilateral Trade Regime: Which Way Forward? Report of the First Warwick Commission Coventry, UK: University of Warwick, 2007
TL;DR: The Multilateral Trade Regime: Which Way Forward? by the First Warwick Commission as mentioned in this paper, which was the first discussion of the multilateral trade regime, is a seminal work in the history of international trade.
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Level of competency needs assessment based on permenhub no. pm 7 of 2018 concerning the master plan for skkni development transportation sector
TL;DR: The results showed that the port operators that were used as respondents really needed the competence of the non-regulator sea transportation sector ports, as evidenced by the results of the average level of competency requirements in the category of Need and Very Need.