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Hale, Marcus

 
9798188770624: The Shipping Container: The Unlikely Story of the Steel Box That Shrank the World and Rewired Global Trade
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ISBN 13 : 9798188770624
Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

The most important object in modern trade is one you never look at.

On an April morning in 1956, a converted oil tanker left Newark harbor carrying fifty-eight steel boxes. Within two decades, that unremarkable metal container had quietly rebuilt the global economy—emptying old ports, filling new ones, and setting in motion the world of cheap goods and long supply chains we now take for granted.

In this vivid short history, Marcus Hale traces the container from an idea a North Carolina trucker loved to tell, through the engineer who taught the box to stack and lock, to the standard that made it universal and the war that proved it worked.

Inside you will find:

  • How Malcom McLean gambled a trucking fortune on ships
  • The twist-lock invention that made stacking possible—and why its patents were given away
  • The vanished world of the dockworker, and the unions that fought the machine
  • The rise of megaships and the strange afterlife of boxes lost at sea

A story of ordinary steel and extraordinary consequences, for anyone curious about how the modern world was actually built.

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Éditeur
Independently published
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 13 
9798188770624
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
88
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