Box Boats: How Container Ships Changed the World

Box Boats

BOXBOATS HOW CONTAINER SHIPS CHANGED THE WORLD BRIAN J. CUDAHY fordham university press New York 2006 Copyright 䉷 2006 Fordham University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cudahy, Brian J. Box boats : how container ships changed the world / Brian J. Cudahy. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-2568-2 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-8232-2568-2 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Container ships—History. 2. Containerization— History. I. Title HE566.C6C83 2006 387.2⬘45—dc22 2006005904 Printed in the United States of America 08 07 06 5 4 3 2 1 First edition ...