The Box (book)
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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger is a book by Marc Levinson charting the historic rise of the intermodal container
(shipping container) and how it changed the economic landscape on a major scale. The New York Times called it "a smart, engaging book".
The book inspired the name for the "The Box" project run by BBC News
from September 2008 onwards, in which the BBC were tracking a container for a period of one year.
Intermodal container
An intermodal container is a standardized reusable steel box used for the safe, efficient and secure storage and movement of materials and products within a global containerized intermodal freight transport system...
(shipping container) and how it changed the economic landscape on a major scale. The New York Times called it "a smart, engaging book".
The book inspired the name for the "The Box" project run by BBC News
BBC News
BBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online...
from September 2008 onwards, in which the BBC were tracking a container for a period of one year.