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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: The key isn’t the containers themselves, but how we use them today.
Chapter 3: Container shipping profoundly changed the world’s ports.
Chapter 4: Container shipping started with one visionary from the trucking industry.
Chapter 5: The spread of container shipping across the United States rapidly changed ports and jobs.
Chapter 6: Container standardization was an early priority, but hard to fully achieve globally.
Chapter 7: Container shipping endured an uphill struggle and took years to gain traction worldwide.
Chapter 8: Container shipping’s big breakthrough came during the Vietnam War.
Chapter 9: Large upfront investments made container shipping a risky venture.
Chapter 10: Within container shipping, scale became the name of the game.
Chapter 11: The global economy transformed as container shipping became both cheap and interconnected worldwide.
Description
The Box (2006) tells the tale of modern transportation’s poster child, the container, and how it revolutionized the shipping industry and enabled globalization. These blinks will take you on a detailed journey through this seemingly simple but revolutionary change in global systems of trade.
Who Should Listen
- Professionals in logistics, transportation or trading
- People interested in globalization
- Every economics and business student