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Further Reading

More information about the history of containerization can be found in the following locations and publications:

  • The Wikipedia article on containerization has fairly extensive reference and further reading lists. See them at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containerization#References
  • The Transportation Research Board of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences published "The Containership Revolution - Malcom McLean's 1956 Innovation Goes Global" by Brian Cudahy in 2006. Read the story.
  • See Mark Levinson, author of "THE BOX - How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger" talking about this book that makes the case that we would not have a global economy were it not for the container. Learn more.