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

In 2005, a ship able to carry 4,000 40-foot containers—8,000 TEUs—was considered unusually large. Ten years later, ships of 20,000 TEUs had joined the world’s fleet, ships so large that a single one could carry 144 million bottles of wine. Even larger ones were on order.