The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author

by Marc Levinson

The West Coast ports that embraced containerization, save for Los Angeles, were withering in the late 1950s, and they saw salvation in the new technology. The ports on the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico had a steadier flow of cargo: as late as 1966, nine of the ten largest maritime routes for U.S. international trade passed through ports on the East Coast or the Gulf,