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 net result of these decisions was that a single port, the Port of New York Authority’s complex at Newark and Elizabeth, dominated container shipping in the East. In 1970, only one other harbor between Maine and Texas, the Hampton Roads of Virginia, could boast even one-ninth the container capacity of the wharves on New York harbor.