The Box: How The Shipping Container Made The World Smaller And The World Economy Bigger (2006) - Plot & Excerpts
Many relevant corporate records have been destroyed. The early growth of containerization was nurtured by the Port of New York Authority (now the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey), but many of that agency’s records were destroyed in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. That this book came to be is a tribute to the work of the many dedicated archivists and librarians who helped me identify extant materials in collections that researchers rarely look at, as well as to private individuals who combed their own files for important records. Back in the early 1990s, when I first thought of writing about Malcom McLean, George Stevenson of the North Carolina State Archives came up with hard-to-find material about the McLean family. When I decided to revisit containerization more recently, Kenneth Cobb of the New York Municipal Archives, Doug DiCarlo of the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives at LaGuardia Community College in New York, and Bette M. Epstein of the New Jersey State Archives in Trenton helped me piece together the story of how the container decimated New York’s port.
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