Read The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger Online
Authors: Marc Levinson
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The index that appeared in the print version of this title was intentionally removed from the e-Book. Please use the search function on your e-Reading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.
AFL-CIO
Africa
Airline Navigators’Association
airplanes
Alabama State Docks
Alameda, CA
Alaska
Alaska Barge and Transport Company
Alaska Freight Lines
Alaska Steamship Company
Aluminum Company of America
American Bureau of Shipping
American Export Isbrandtsen Line
American Export Lines
American Federation of Labor.
See also
AFL-CIO
American Federation of Musicians
American Foundation on Automation and Employment
American-Hawaiian Steamship Company
American Independence Line
American Independent Oil Company
American Lancer
American Magazine
American President Lines
American Standards Association; MH-5 Committee; Standards Review Board
Amsterdamn
Anastasia, Anthony
animal skins, rates for
Antwerp
apparel trade
Army, U.S.
See
United States Army
Asia: economics of serving; and Europe routes; and North American routes; port development in
Associated Steamships
Atlantic Container Line
Atlantic States Motor Lines
Auckland, New Zealand
Australia: container services to; and early containerization; and freight rates; labor in; railroads in; and trade patterns
Australian Maritime Services Board
Australian Stevedoring Board
automation, as social issue
automobiles
aviation
Baltimore; containership service from; geographic advantages and disadvantages of; labor issues in
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Barbie
Basel
Belgium
Bell, Peter
Ben Line
Besson, Frank
Betamax video players
Bethlehem Steel
Bienville
Bingham, Jonathan
Bonner, Herbert
borax shipments
Borruey, René
Boston
Bowers, John
Bradley, “Captain” William
Brando, Marlon
breakbulk ships; containers on; economics of; and rate structures; in Vietnam service
Bremen
Bremerhaven
Bridges, Harry
British Transport Docks Board
Brooklyn; economic decline of; manufacturing in; new piers in, and port traffic; ship lines relocating from; waterfront of
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Brown, Leo
Brown Industries
Brynjolfsson, Erik
Bull Line
Busan, Korea
C-2 cargo ships
C-3 cargo ships
C-4 cargo ships
Cagney, James
California
Camas, WA
Campbell, Robert
Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam
Canada
cargo handling: automation of; before containers; cost of; economics of; in Vietnam.
See also
shipping costs
Caribbean
Caterpillar Tractor
cells (for containers)
Central of Georgia Railroad
Chandler, Alfred D., Jr.
Chang Yung-fa
Charleston, SC
Chase National Bank
chassis
cheese shipments
Chelsea Piers
Chester, PA
Chicago
China
Chinitz, Benjamin
Cho, Ting-Li
Chopin, Alexander
cigarettes
Cincinnati Motor Terminals Company
City Investing Co.
Coastwise Steamship Company
Coe, Davidn
computers: and administration; and container system design; shipper use of; and vessel loading
Conex boxes
conferences; and container rates; weakness of
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Connecticut
Consolidated Freightways
consortia
Container Marine Lines
container yards
containers: for airplanes; consolidation of; design of; dimensions of; disappearance and abandonment of; diversity of; duties on; early; economic impact of; McLean concept of; and market share; number of; at Pan Atlantic; shipper adaptation to; social consequences of; stacking of; stripping and stuffing of weight limits for.
See also
standardization
containerships: capacity of; cost of; design of early; economics of; financing for; first fully cellular; number of; in Pacific service; port time of; in round-the-world service SL-7; second generation of; size and speed of; standardization andn.; in transatlantic service; very large; in Vietnam War
copper
corner fittings
cotton
Cowie, Jefferson
cranes: compatibility of; gantry; at Matson; movements of; trolleys on.
See also
spreader bars
crews
Crown Zellerbach Corp.
Cuba
Cullman, Howard
Cunard Line
Cushing, Charles
Cushing, John E.
customs inspection
Czachowski, Bernard
Da Nang, Vietnam
Dart Container Line
Dell
DeLong pier
Delta Steamship Co.
Denmark
deregulation
Dewey, Thomas E.
Dixon, George
Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association
Dravo Corp.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
DuPont, E. I. de Nemours, & Co.
Durban, South Africa
East India Docks, London
Eastman Kodak Company
economic geography
economies of scale
Econships
Edge, Walter
Edinburgh, Scotland
Edison, Thomas
Egger, Cecil
Eisenberg, Walter
electricity, adoption of
electronics shipments
Elizabeth, NJ: as containerport; Sea-Land and; waterfront of before port constructionn
Elizabethport
Ellerman Line
Erie and St. Lawrence Corporation
Erie Canal
Europe: container diversity in; economic growth of; North Atlantic shipping to; and standardization; and shipping to Asia and Australia
European Common Market
European Container Terminus
Evergreen Marine
Fairland
Far Eastern Shipping Company
Felixstowe, England
Field, Fred
Financial Times
First Colony Farms
Fishlow, Albertn
Fitzgerald, Donald
Flexivan Leasing
Flynn, Stephen E.
Fogel, Robert William
Ford, Gerald
Forgash, Morris
freight forwarding
Fremantle, Australia
French national railway
Frost, Dudley
Fruehauf Trailer Company
fuel costs
Galveston, TX
Garford Trucking
Gateway City
General Electric Company
General Motors
German Federal Railway
German Liner Indexn
Germany
Gilman, Roger H.
Gioia Tauro, Italy
Glaeser, Edward L.
Glasgow, Scotland
Gleason, Thomas (Teddy): elected ILA president; and Guaranteed Annual Income; in 1959 negotiations; in 1962 negotiations; personal background of in Vietnam
globalization
Goldblatt, Louis
Goldman, Jerome L.
Grace Line; and combined passenger and freight service; and standardization; and Venezuela plan
Grangemouth, Scodand
Great Britain: and container traffic; railways in; and Singapore; and trade
Great Western Railway
Greece
Greenwich Village, New York City
Guaranteed Annual Income.
See
International Longshoremen’s Association
Gulfport, MS
Gulick J. W.
Halberg, Herbert
Hall, Herbert
Hamburg, Germany
Hampton Roads, VA
Hansen, Wilhelm A. N.
Hapag-Lloyd
Harlander, Don
Harlander, Leslie: and container standardization; and Matson planning
Harriman, Averell
Hawaii
Hawaiian Citizen
Hawaiian Merchant
Healey, James
Hecksher-Ohlin modeln
Hinden, Eugene
Hitt, Lorin M.
Hoffer, Eric
Holland-America Line
Holland Tunnel
Honda Motor Co. Hong Kong; port development in; and ship traffic
Honolulu
Houston: as major containerport; Pan-Atlantic service to
Hoving, Thomas
Ideal-X
immigrants: among dockworkers; smuggling of
Impellitteri, Vincent
Inchon, Korea
independent carriers.
See
nonconference carriers
India
India House
Indiana
Indochina
Indonesia
Ingalls Shipyard
innovation
insurance: of containers; of trucks
intermodal shipment
International Container Bureau
International Ladies’ Garment Workers
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union; and automation debate; and 1956 contract; leadership of; Matson plans and; and Mechanization and Modernization Agreement; relations of with ILA; and strikes; and wages; and work rules
International Longshoremen’s Association: and arbitration and mediation; and containerization impact; and gang sizes; and Guaranteed Annual Income; and hiring priority; internal politics of; leadership of; and negotiations over automation; and 1962–1963 negotiations; and 1964 negotiations; New York piers and; and public loaders; racial and ethnic divisions in; recognition of; and strikes
International Standards Organization