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

Sixty years after the Ideal-X, the equivalent of more than 300 million 20-foot containers were making their way across the world’s oceans each year, with perhaps a fourth of them originating in China alone. Countless more were being shipped cross-border by truck or train.6