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

By early 1967, Waterman Steamship, Malcom McLean’s former company, switched to a flat rate for shipments from the United States to southern Europe: $400 for a shipper-owned 20-foot container, $800 for a 40-foot container, regardless of the contents.