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There can be no doubt, however, that containerization eliminated one of the key reasons for operating a factory in New York City: ease of shipment. A New York City location had long offered transport-cost advantages for factories serving foreign or distant domestic markets, as local plants could get their goods loaded on ships with much less handli
... See moreMarc Levinson • The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author
Thomas Hine’s 1995 book, Total Package, which chronicles the history of consumer packaged goods, described the things that house the products we buy as “persuasive containers”—boxes and jugs and jars designed not just to safeguard their contents but to produce particular behaviors in the people who encounter them. The consumer system puts forth a c... See more
Most important, the containers Pan-Atlantic planned to use would be designed to be shifted easily among ships, trucks, and trains.