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The Box Marc Levinson

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That box nothing showy within which is transported goods around the world, is serving 50 years of invented.

This has meant a great revolution within the business world.

The container

How the container transformed international trade?

How Malcom McLean developed the container and was its maximum promoter?

How this innovation progressed from intermittent mode?

Why has become today in a bastion at a global scale?

What you learn in the book?

The container not only facilitated the transport. It also allowed to business send capital abroad. This change reversed years of labor grievances achieved by workers from North America, Europe and Japan. Before the container, working conditions improved steadily: fewer hours of work, better salaries and a lower retirement age.

How the container transformed international trade

McLean decided to design the most suitable housing for the transport (light and aluminum) and solve the problems of loading and unloading. His first boat full of containers it departed from Port Newark, New Jersey, on 26 April 1956.

In 1959, the transport industry chose some definitive measures for the housing. The Containers measured 20 or 40 feet long, 8 feet high and eight wide

How Malcom McLean developed the container and was its

maximum promoter?

The container turned out to be a force as dynamic, that practically no aspect of the economy of the that played was without change. The changes, most of the times, were not as predicted.

The Containers allow the loading and unloading of goods to be faster and with fewer people, which would change the cost structure of the industry

How this innovation progressed from intermittent mode?

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