The Book: The Box – The Container Revolution by Marc Levinson

The Box, or how the container changed the world…

One could imagine it, one could suspect it. And reading these lines, one understands. We can see how a steel box has changed the life of the ordinary citizen, the basic consumer: it has brought the global economy into his home and into his lifestyle.

With profitability and immediacy as an imperative, containerization has played a major role in the evolution of the world economy.