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Box Boats: How Container Ships Changed the World
Brian J. Cudahy
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Box Boats: How Container Ships Changed the World
Brian J. Cudahy
Provides an account of the container-ship revolution - from the maiden voyage in 1956 of Ideal X to the entrepreneurial vision and technological breakthroughs that make it possible to ship more goods more cheaply than ever before - the two hundred million containers shipped every year that are the lifeblood of the new global economy.
352 pages, 50 Illustrations, black and white
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | December 17, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9780823225699 |
| Publishers | Fordham University Press |
| Pages | 352 |
| Dimensions | 209 × 140 × 38 mm · 590 g |
| Language | English |
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