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

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by Marc Levinson

Lincoln Tunnel

  Lindsay, John V.

  liner conferences. See conferences

  Little, Arthur D.

  Litton Industries

  Liverpool, England

  Lloyd’s Shipping Economist

  locking systems

  Lodge, Henry Cabot

  logistics. See also cargo handling

  London

  London Docks

  London, Midland, and Scottish Railway

  Long Beach, CA; and port redevelopment; Vietnam War and

  Long Island Railroad

  longshoremen: accidents and injuries involving; and containers; and control over workplace; and crime; culture of; ethnic background of; income and wages of; militancy of; payments to displaced; productivity of; race relations among; registration and hiring of; strikes by; traditional work of. See also International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union; International Longshoremen’s Association; Transport and General Workers Union

  Los Angeles, CA; intermodal traffic through; labor relations in; manufacturing in; objections to Sea-Land by; and port development; Vietnam War and

  Loveland, S. C., Co.

  Ludwig, Daniel K.

  Lukenbach Steamship Company

  Lukens, Matthias

  Lumber

  Lumberton, NC

  McIntyre, Sidney

  McKinsey & Co.

  McLean, Angus Wilton

  McLean, Clara

  McLean, James

  McLean, Malcolm Purcell, Sr.

  McLean, Malcom, Jr.

  McLean, Malcom P.: container scheme of; and cost control; and expansion plans; financial acumen of; and First Colony Farms; historical assessment of; and indebtedness; and McLean Industries; management style of; personality of; and Port of New York Authority; and regulators; and Sea-Land sale; and split with R. J. Reynolds; and strategy; as trucking entrepreneur; and twist-lock release; and United States Lines; and Vietnam War; and Waterman purchase; youth of

  McLean Industries: bid by for Bull Line; and containers; and Equipment Rental Inc.; financial performance of; formation of; Litton investment in; Ludwig investment in; Puerto Rico subsidiary of; railyard plans of; and Sea-Land sale; and U.S. Lines

  McLean Trucking: business of; creation of; management of; and mergers; and recruiting; sale of; and trailership scheme

  McNamara, Robert

  Macmillan, Harold

  Maersk Line

  Malaysia

  Manchester, England

  Manhattan: employment in; and port traffic; water-front of

  Manila

  manufacturing: economic role of; and freight transportation; just-in-time; location of; vertical integration in

  Marine Steel Corporation

  Marseilles, France

  Maseru, Lesotho

  Massachusetts Port Authority

  Matson Navigation Company: adoption of containerization by; and containers; contrast of with Pan-Atlantic; and East Asia service; fleet of; and intermodal service; and Japan service; and military service; mistakes of; Oakland base of; and standardization; and union relations

  Mattel Corp.

  Maxton, NC

  Mayaguez, PR

  Meany, George

  meat shipments

  Mechanization and Modernization Agreement. See International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union

  Mediterranean Shipping Company

  Melbourne, Australia

  merchant marine, U.S.: and coastwise trade; and containerization; and costs; in postwar era; and regulation; and subsidies; in World War II; in Vietnam

  mergers

  Mersey Docks and Harbour Board

  Mexico

  Meyner, Robert

  MH-5 Committee. See American Standards Association

  Miami, FL

  Middle East

  military freight

  Military Sea Transportation Service. See United States Navy

  minibridge

  Minneapolis

  Missouri Pacific Railway

  Mitsui group

  Mitsui Steamship Company Mobile, AL

  Mokyr, Joel

  M⊘ller, A. P. See Maersk Line

  Montreal

  Moore-McCormack Lines

  Moscoso, Teodoro

  Moses, Robert

  Muller, Fred

  Mullman, Morris

  Munich, Germany

  National Bulk Carriers

  National Castings Company

  National City Bank

  National Defense Transportation Association

  National Dock Labour Board

  National Maritime Union

  Navy, U.S. See United States Navy

  Nedlloyd

  Netherlands

  Never Steal Anything Small

  Newark, NJ: and containership service; dominance of in East; McLean plan for; Port Authority involvement with; and port traffic

  Newell, James P.

  New Jersey: docks of before containerization; and market share; and port construction; railroads in; warehouses and factories shift to

  New Jersey Turnpike

  New Orleans

  New York, Port of; labor negotiations in; and shift to New Jersey; traffic in

  New York Central Railroad

  New York City: containerization impact on; employment in; international trade role of; manufacturing in; Marine and Aviation Department of; passenger ship terminal in; pier reconstruction in; piers in; Planning Commission of; politics in; Port Authority relations with; and port costsnn. 3 and 9; Staten Island terminal. See also International Longshoremen’s Association; New York, Port of; New York Shipping Association

  New York Shipping Association

  New York Herald Tribune

  New York Times

  New York Post

  New York World-Telegram

  New York World Trade Corporation

  New Zealand

  Nha Be, Vietnam

  nonconference carriers

  North Atlantic Pool Agreement

  North Shore Line (railroad)

  Norton Lilly & Co.

  Nutter, Ben

  N.Y.K. Line

  Oakland; containerport development in; before containers; lease of with Sea-Land; and traffic

  O’Connor, Vincent

  O’Dwyer, William

  Ogden, E. B.

  Ohio

  oil crises

  Okinawa

  On the Waterfront

  Orient Overseas Line

  Osaka Japan

  Overseas Containers Ltd.

  Pacific Coast Engineering Company

  Pacific Maritime Association

  Pacini, Alfred

  pallets

  palm oil shipments

  Panama Canal

  Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corporation: and container scheme; McLean purchase of; Newark headquarters of; and Puerto Rico service; and rates; renaming of; and ship operation; and standardization; and twist-lock patent; and union relations. See also McLean Industries; Sea-Land Service; Waterman Steamship Corp.

  Pascagoula, MS

  Peninsula & Oriental

  Perm Central Railroad

  Pennsylvania

  Pennsylvania Railroad

  Peru

  Philadelphia

  Philippines

  Pilcher, William

  piggyback service. See railroads

  pineapple

  Pinehurst, NC

  Polaroid Corp.

  Ponce, PR

  Port Angeles, WA

  Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. See also Port of New York Authority

  port calls

  Port Klang, Malaysia

  Portland (OR)

  Port of __. See name of port city

  Port of London Authority

  Port of New York Authority: and airports; and concern about cargo theft; and construction of Port Elizabeth; dominance of in East; and early embrace of containerization; formation of; interest of in shippingn, and, relations of with
New York City. See also King, A. Lyle; Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; Tobin, Austin

  Port of Singapore Authority

  ports: in Asia; competition among; concentration among; containerization at East Coast; before containers; containers and; depth of; as distribution centers; and employment; in Great Britain; privatization of; productivity of; public expenditures on; increased size of

  Powell, Stanley

  Price, Robert

  Prior-Palmer, G. E.

  Propeller Club

  Prudential Lines

  Prussia

  public loaders

  Puerto Rico: containership service to; disappearance of containers in; and economic development; military shipments to; and shipping costs

  Pullman Company

  Qingdao, China

  Queen Mary

  Qui Nhon, Vietnam

  railroads: attitude of toward containerization; before containers; boxcars; and container standardization; and container traffic prior to 1932; deregulation of in United States; and double-stack service; and early containers; flatcars; and New York City; on-dock; and piggyback service; and ports; and rate structures; refrigerated cars; and ship lines; and track standardization

  Ramage, Lawson

  rebates

  retailers

  revenue bonds

  Reynolds (R. J.) Industries

  Ricardo, David

  Richardson, Paul

  Richmond, CA

  Rockefeller, David

  Roger, Sidney

  roll on-roll off ships

  Rosenberg, Nathan

  Rostow, W. W.

  Rotterdam: as European container center; labor arrangements in; among largest ports; services to

  Ryan, Joseph

  Sager, Karl Heinz

  Saigon, Vietnam

  St. Johnston, Kerry

  St. Katherine Docks, London

  St. Lawrence Seaway

  St. Sure, J. Paul

  San Diego, CA

  San Francisco, CA: before containerization; impact of containerization on; labor relations in; and objection to Sea-Land; and port redevelopment

  San Juan, Puerto Rico

  Santa Rosa

  Savannah, GA

  Sayre, Wallace S.

  ScanDutch

  Scotland

  Scott, Norman

  scramble. See shape-up

  Sea Containers Ltd.

  Seaforth docks

  Sea-Land Service: business of; and containers; buys Econships; and Elizabeth terminal; expansion of in 1970s; and European service; and Felixstowe development; finances of; fleet of; and intracoastal service; and Japan service; and Litton Industries; Maersk ownership of; and military cargo; Newark base of; and Okinawa service; opened by Pan-Atlantic; Pan-Atlantic renamed as; and Philippine service; and Puerto Rico service; and railroads; and rates; and rebates; and R. J. Reynolds; and standardization; and SL-7s; bid of for U.S. lines; and U.S. ports; and Vietnam service

  Seatrain Lines

  Seattle, WA; and Alaska trade; and competition; and containerport development; as distribution center; and Vietnam War

  Seattle Port Commission

  security

  Shanghai, China

  shape-up

  Sharpe Army Depot

  Shenzhen, China

  shipbuilding: by consortia; of Econships; by Evergreen; glut of; at Ingalls shipyard; Japanese subsidies for; in mid-1960s; by new companies; of second-generation containerships; U.S. subsidies for; after World War II

  shippers

  shippers’ councils

  Shipping Act of 1984

  shipping costs: before containerization; with early containers; under contracts; data about; decline in; deregulation and; flat rates and; intermodal; and market concentration; in 1950s; in 1960s; in 1970s; in 1980s-1990s; in poor countries; rate wars; theoretic assumptions about; time and. See also conferences; nonconference carriers

  Singapore; and port development; and traffic growth

  Skagit Steel & Iron Works

  Smathers, George

  smuggling

  South Africa

  South African Marine

  Southampton

  Southern Railway

  Soviet Union

  Spain

  spreader bars

  standardization: benefits of; of container construction; of container dimensions; of container systems; of corner fittings; and performance; of railway gauge

  Staten Island, NY

  States Marine Lines

  steamship

  steel

  stevedoring companies: in Great Britain; and port ownership; in United States

  Straits of Malacca

  Strick Trailers

  strikes. See also International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union; International Longshoremen’s Association; Transport and General Workers Union

  Subie Bay, Philippines

  Suez Canal

  sugar

  supply chains

  Surrey Docks, London

  Switzerland

  Sydney, Australia

  T-2 tanker ships

  Tacoma, WA

  Taichung, Taiwan

  Taiwan

  Tampa FL

  Tanjung Pelepas, Malaysia

  Tantlinger, Keith: inventions of; and McLean Industries; role of in standardization

  tariffs

  Teamsters Union

  technological change

  telegraph

  TEU (20-foot equivalent unit)

  Thailand

  Thames River

  Thatcher, Margaret

  Tilbury, England

  Tobin, Austin

  Tokyo

  Toyota Motor Co.

  Tozzoli, Guy E.

  trade, international: in containers; in intermediate goods; magnitude of; in nineteenth century; pattern of; shipping costs as barrier to; time as barrier to

  Trailer Train Company

  Trailmobile Corp.

  tramp ships

  transit warehouses

  Transport and General Workers Union

  Transportation Act of 1958

  Trans World Airlines

  TRIO

  Trotter, Eddie

  trucking: and containers; before containers; and container standards; deregulation of in United States; development of; and market share; and piggyback services

  trucks: design of; engines of; and trailers

  Tung, C. Y.

  United Arab Emirates

  United Auto Workers

  United Cargo Corporation

  United Mine Workers

  United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

  United Shipping Company

  United States

  United States, economy of

  United States Air Force

  United States Army: and early use of containers; First Logistical Command; Materiel Command; in Vietnam

  United States Coast Guard

  United States Congress

  United States Department of Defense; Joint Logistics Review Board

  United States Department of Labor

  United States Federal Maritime Board

  United States Federal Maritime Commission

  United States Freight Company

  United States Joint Chiefs of Staff

  United States Lines: bankruptcy of; finances of; McLean and; and new pier in New York; and round-the-world service; sale of to Kidde; and Sea-Land bid; and takeover of Delta and Prudential; and transatlantic service

  United States Maritime Administration: and operating subsidies; as regulator; role of in setting standards

  United States Navy: claim of on merchant fleet; Military Sea Transportation Service; and shipping contracts; and SL-7 acquisition

  variety (of goods)

  Venezuela

  Victory Ships

  Vietnam War; containership service in; corruption during; danger pay for seamen in; and logistics; military buildup in; and Newport development;
and port facilities; U.S. politics and

  Wagner, Robert E.

  Wal-Mart

  warehouses. See transit warehouses

  Warrior

  Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor

  Waterman Steamship Corp.: culture of; and flat rates; McLean purchase of; move of to New Jersey; ships of; shipyard of; and subsidies. See also McLean Industries; Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corporation; Sea-Land Service

  Weldon, Foster

  Wellington, New Zealand

  Westmoreland, William

  wharves; vertical piers

  Whirlpool Corporation

  whiskey shipments

  Whitehall Club

  White Star Line

  wholesaling

  Winston-Salem, NC

  Works Progress Administration

  World Bank

  Wriston, Walter

  Xerox Corp.

  Yokohamajapan

  Yom Kippur War

  York, PA

  Younger, Kenneth

  Zim Line

 

 

 


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