Box Boats How Container Ships Changed the World

By: Brian J. Cudahy

Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2006

ISBN - 13: 978-0-8232-2568-2 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN - 10: 0-8232-2568-2 (cloth : alk. paper) 

Length:  338 pages

Type: e-Book

Abstract:

Masterful maritime history, Box Boats shows how fleets of these ungainly ships make the modern world possible—with both positive and negative effects. It’s also a tale of an historic home port, New York, where old piers lie silent while 40-foot steel boxes of toys and televisions come ashore by the thousands, across the bay in New Jersey

Elements of Shipping

By: Alan E. Branch

Publisher: Routledge, 2007 (Eighth edition) 

ISBN: 0-203-01308-3

Length: 504 pages

Type: e-Book

Abstract:

The book explains in a lucid, professional manner the basic elements of shipping embracing operating, e-commerce/computerization (shipboard/ trade), commercial, legal, economic, technical, managerial, logistics and financial considerations. It also reflects major trends including the impact of globalization, current good practice and future trends. All twenty-two chapters have been updated and over two-thirds of the content is new.

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

By: Marc Levinson

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2008

ISBN-13: ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12324-0 (hardcover: alk. paper)

ISBN-IO: 0-691-12324-1 (hardcover) 

Length: 376 pages

Type: e-Book

Abstract:

The present book was first published on the 15th anniversary of the very first container voyage; nowadays, it is the first complete history of the shipping container. "The Box" recounts how containerization was turned from a quite impractical idea into a really massive industry slashing the cost of goods transportation around the world and making the boom in global trade become possible. However, the container did not just happen. Its adoption required great money and required years negotiations on standards that made it possible for any container to travel on ship or train or truck. In his publication, the famous economist of today, Marc Levinson, shows how the container managed to get the economic geography transformed thus devastating traditional ports such as London and NY and fueling the growth of ones that were previously obscure.