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Please Explain: Shipping Containers and How Cargo Moves around the World

from Please Explain (The Leonard Lopate Show) · host WNYC

Container shipping began 50 years ago and developed into a huge industry that has made the boom in global trade possible. Marc Levinson, author of The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, tells us how cargo moves around the works, and looks at the sweeping economic consequences containerization brought about.

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