Name: The Shipping Container: How a steel box remade the trade of the world
Author: Ketineni Ramarao

Cover of The Shipping Container: How a steel box remade the trade of the world, a book by Ketineni Ramarao - Industries of India

In the spring of 1954 a single cargo ship carried 194,582 separate pieces, each one loaded by hand. The shipping container ended that world. This book tells how one steel box became a system - the machine, the ships, the cranes, the standard - and how that system remade ports, labour and the cost of moving everything.

72 pages · Published November 2026 · Free to read as a PDF

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Every reference number in the book resolves in the source companion: what each source is, how fully it was read, and its limits.

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