The Box How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger is a non-fiction book by Marc Levinson charting the historic rise of the intermodal container and how it changed the economic landscape of the global economy. 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.
The Box won a bronze medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards in the "Finance/Investment/Economics" category. The Box was shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.