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Port Size Perspective: How Big are the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles?

September 27, 2015 No Comments
Ships and Cranes at the Port of Long Beach

In my review of The Box, I noted that containerization required ports to cover much more ground to support cranes, container storage, roadways, and so forth. To illustrate the size of major modern ports, let’s take a look at the Ports of LA and Long Beach. These are the two largest ports in the United […]

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Book Review: “The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger,” by Marc Levinson

September 13, 2015 No Comments

From Chaos to Order If you watched a ship loading or unloading in the early 1950s, it wouldn’t look that much different than it would have in the 1850s or even the ancient world. Sure, the port of 1950 might have forklifts and motorized cranes, but like long ago nearly every piece of cargo would […]

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