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 (shipping container) and how it changed the economic landscape of the global economy. [1] [2] The New York Times called it "a smart, engaging book". [3]
The book inspired the name for the project " The Box" run by BBC News from September 2008 onwards, in which the BBC were tracking a container for a period of one year. [4]
The Box won a bronze medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards (2007) in the "Finance/Investment/Economics" category. [5] It also won the 2007 Anderson Medal from the Society for Nautical Research. [6] The Box was shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award (2006). [7]
The 2nd edition has an extra chapter.