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

Only the biggest ports are worth a time-consuming stop: in 2014, 46 percent of world container shipments moved through just 20 ports, the smallest of which handled more than four million 40-foot containers.

Almost 50% of container shipments are moved vy only 20 major ports