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

By Sriram Khé. 2008

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Decarbonizing intraregional freight systems with a focus on modal shift (2018, background): “role in port and terminal operations, this is no longer as important [21].”
Unwelcome exchange: International trade as a direct and indirect driver of biological invasions worldwide (2021, background): “The freight container is arguably one of themost important developments in international trade that has revolutionized the design of shipping vessels and ports helping integrate land and sea transport networks and so reduce shipping costs of a vast range of commodities.(25) The development of interm”
Why are maritime ports (still) urban, and why should policy-makers care? (2012, background): “Furthermore, Liverpool’s port also suffered because of the geographical shifts of shipping routes after the disintegration of the British Empire and by strong union interests in the port city that blocked containerization [1].”
Capital’s logistical fix: Accumulation, globalization, and the survival of capitalism (2018, background): “, 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).”