The box : how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger

By Benoît Demil, X. Lecocq. 2006

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Missing links: Logistics, governance and upgrading in a shifting global economy (2014, background): “First, with respect to transportation modes, although there has been limited technological change in transport modes in recent decades, the advent of a standardised system of containerisation and transhipment by the 1970s underpins the global web of intra- and inter-firm trade (Levinson, 2006).”
Is the International Border Effect Larger than the Domestic Border Effect? Evidence from U.S. Trade (2009, neutral): “30 Historically, competition on U.S. state-to-state transportation routes was heavily restricted by the Interstate Commerce Commission well into the post-World War II era, giving companies an additional incentive to co-locate (see Levinson, 2006).”
Following things of rubbish value: end-of-life ships, 'chock-chocky' furniture and the Bangladeshi middle class consumer (2010, neutral): “The contemporary merchant vessel, combined with the technology of the big box container, is the means by which most commodities move around the world – although its central role and those of maritime spaces is all too often overlooked (Sekula, 1995: Levinson, 2006).”
The freelance translation machine: Algorithmic culture and the invisible industry (2013, background): “ProZ.com is no more interested in a translation project’s contents than a barge captain is in the contents of the shipping containers piled on his deck (cf. Levinson, 2006; Morley, 2011).”
Capital’s logistical fix: Accumulation, globalization, and the survival of capitalism (2018, background): “…in areas such as transportation geography (Hesse and Rodrigue, 2004, 2006; Rodrigue and Notteboom, 2009), global production networks (Coe et al., 2004; Dicken et al., 2001; Henderson et al., 2002; Yeung and Coe, 2014), and cargo mobilities (Birtchnell et al., 2015; Levinson, 2006; Martin, 2013).”
A Geography of Logistics: Market Authority and the Security of Supply Chains (2010, background): “With the military’s use of containers to manage massive supply chains during the Vietnam War, container shipping became firmly entrenched (Levinson 2006).”
Understanding the Innovation Impacts of Public Procurement (2010, positive): “Levinson (2006) argues that the early adoption of containerized shipping by the US military to solve logistics problems associated with the war in Vietnam created both a powerful demonstrator effect and provided an opportunity for entrepreneurs to kick-start the importing of Japanese consumer…”
Toward a Physical Internet: meeting the global logistics sustainability grand challenge (2011, positive): “It should not be surprising that some of the currently most efficient logistics systems are associated, on the large side, with world-standard 20- and 40-feet container transport, handling and storage [6], and on the small side, with parcel logistics as deployed by giants such as DHL, FedEx, Purolat”
The Competitiveness of Global Port-Cities: Synthesis Report (2013, background): “The advent of containerisation dealt a major blow to both cities’ maritime sectors, as technology upgrades were both economically unfeasible and fiercely contested by organised labour (Levinson 2006).”
Twenty challenges to innovation studies (2015, background): “19 There is a book on the shipping container but written by a journalist (Levinson, 2006) rather than an IS researcher, while Klose (2015) has recently analysed the rise of containers from an STS perspective.”