Diverse The Box: Wie der Container die Welt veränderte und die Wirtschaft vergrößerte

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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. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about. Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York and London and fueling the growth of previously obscure ones, such as Oakland. By making shipping so cheap that industry could locate factories far from its customers, the container paved the way for Asia to become the world's workshop and brought consumers a previously unimaginable variety of low-cost products from around the globe.

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. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about. Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York and London and fueling the growth of previously obscure ones, such as Oakland. By making shipping so cheap that industry could locate factories far from its customers, the container paved the way for Asia to become the world's workshop and brought consumers a previously unimaginable variety of low-cost products from around the globe.

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Autoreninformation Marc Levinson ist Ökonom in Washington, DC. Zuvor war er Senior Fellow am Council on Foreign Relations, Ökonom bei einer führenden Investmentbank und Finanz- und Wirtschaftschef beim The Economist. Klappentext Im April 1956 transportierte ein umgebauter Öltanker achtundfünfzig Container von Newark nach Houston. Aus diesem bescheidenen Anfang entwickelte sich die Containerschifffahrt zu einer riesigen Industrie, die den Boom des globalen Handels ermöglichte. "The Box" erzählt die dramatische Geschichte der Entstehung des Containers, des Jahrzehnts des Kampfes, bevor er weit verbreitet angenommen wurde, und der weitreichenden wirtschaftlichen Folgen des drastischen Rückgangs der Transportkosten, den die Containerisierung mit sich brachte. Der Ökonom Marc Levinson zeigt anhand zuvor vernachlässigter Quellen, wie der Container die wirtschaftliche Geographie transformierte und traditionelle Häfen verwüstete.