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

William Westmoreland, the U.S. military commander, and James S. Killen, head of the U.S. foreign aid mission, had agreed that the best way to keep Vietnam supplied was to expand the port at Da Nang, a small city 430 miles north of Saigon.