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In Apr 1956, a refitted essential oil tanker transported 58 shipping storage containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipment developed into an enormous industry that made the increase in global trade possible. The Field explains to the dramatic storyline of the container's creation, the ten years of struggle before it was broadly followed, and the sweeping monetary results of the well-defined fall in vehicles costs that containerization brought about. Shared on the 50th wedding anniversary of the first pot voyage, this is actually the first comprehensive record of the shipment pot. It recounts how the drive and imagination of any iconoclastic business owner, Malcom McLean, turned containerization from an impractical idea into an enormous industry that slashed the cost of transporting goods across the world and made the increase in global trade possible. But the pot didn't just happen. Its adoption required huge amounts of money, both from private investors and from slots that aspired to be on the leading edge of a fresh technology. It required many years of high-stakes bargaining with two of the titans of structured labor, Harry Bridges and Teddy Gleason, as well as delicate negotiations on specifications that made it possible for nearly every container to travel on any truck or coach or ship. Inevitably, it had taken McLean's success in offering U.S. makes in Vietnam to persuade the world of the container's probable. Drawing on previously neglected options, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed monetary geography, damaging traditional slots such as New York and London and fueling the progress of previously obscure ones, such as Oakland. By making shipment so cheap that industry could discover factories far from its customers, the pot paved just how for Asia to be the world's workshop and brought consumers a previously unimaginable variety of low-cost products from around the world.