The Box (Levinson book) explained

Author:	Marc Levinson
Isbn:	0-691-12324-1
Pub Date:	2006
Language:	English
Country:	United States
Genre:	Non-fiction
Publisher:	Princeton University Press

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger is a non-fiction book by Marc Levinson charting the historic rise of the intermodal container (shipping container) and how it changed the economic landscape of the global economy.^{[1] [2]} The New York Times called it "a smart, engaging book".^[3]

The book inspired the name for the project "The Box" run by BBC News from September 2008 onwards, in which the BBC were tracking a container for a period of one year.^[4]

The Box won a bronze medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards (2007) in the "Finance/Investment/Economics" category.^[5] It also won the 2007 Anderson Medal from the Society for Nautical Research.^[6] The Box was shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award (2006).^[7]

Editions

• Book: Levinson, Marc . The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger . 2006 . 0-691-12324-1 . Princeton University Press . registration .
• Book: Levinson, Marc. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. Princeton University Press. 2016. 978-0-691-17081-7. 2nd.

The 2nd edition has an extra chapter.

Chapters

1. The World the Box Made
2. Gridlock on the Docks
3. The Trucker
4. The System
5. The Battle for New York's Post
6. Union Disunion
7. Setting the Standard
8. Takeoff
9. Vietnam
10. Ports in a Storm
11. Boom and Bust
12. The Bigness Complex
13. The Shipper's Revenge
14. Just in Time – Barbie is an example
15. Adding Value

See also

• Dry port – aka "Inland Port"
• Intermodal container

Bibliography

• Outside the Box – How Globalization Changed From Moving Stuff To Spreading Ideas. Front cover of book states author is Marc Levinson;

Notes and References

1. Web site: Thinking outside the box . Howard . Davies . 2006-04-01 . Times Online.
2. News: Globalization 1.0 . Nora . Krug . 2008-04-13 . Washington Post.
3. News: A Revolution That Came In a Box . Joe . Nocera . The New York Times . 2006-05-13 . 2009-01-24.
4. Web site: The Box takes off on global journey . Jeremy . Hillman . . 2008-09-08.
5. Web site: Announcing 2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results . Independent Publisher Book Awards . 2007 . July 20, 2013.
6. Web site: Awards . Society for Nautical Research.
7. Web site: Award shortlist announced 2006 . Financial Times . 18 September 2006 . 30 May 2012.