The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

By M. Levinson. 2006

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The Location and Global Network Structure of Maritime Advanced Producer Services (2011, background): “First, the maritime transport sector is a major facilitator of the process of economic globalisation (Levinson, 2006) as it links distant production clusters and consumer markets.”
Toward a Physical Internet: meeting the global logistics sustainability grand challenge (2011, unknown): “Trucks,#TAB##R# wagons#TAB##R# and#TAB##R# containers#TAB##R# are#TAB##R# often#TAB##R# half#TAB##R# empty#TAB##R# at#TAB##R# departure,#TAB##R# with#TAB##R# a#TAB##R# large#TAB##R# portion#TAB##R# of#TAB##R# the non-‐emptiness#TAB##R# being#TAB##R# filled#TAB##R# by#TAB##R# pack”
Integrating world cities into production networks : the case of port cities (2010, background): “The relationships between port and city changed considerably during the second half of the twentieth century (Levinson 2006).”
COMPARATIVE NORTH AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN GATEWAY LOGISTICS: THE REGIONALISM OF FREIGHT DISTRIBUTION (2010, background): “Containerization has been one of the strongest forces behind the standardization of global freight distribution systems (Levinson, 2006; Notteboom and Rodrigue, 2009).”
Container shipping on the Northern Sea Route (2009, background): “Note that the trend in 2007–2008 has been to sail at 22 knots, mainly to conserve energy (Kirschbaum, 2008; Levinson, 2006; Oceana, 2008), but this change is not adopted in our model.”