Comments on: How the lowly shipping container changed the world https://homenewsnow.com/blog/2022/01/11/how-the-lowly-shipping-container-changed-the-world/ Your Source for Home Furnishings Retail News Tue, 13 Feb 2024 18:34:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Back to the Future: Malls, Train Heists . . . Pirates? | Wandering Rocks https://homenewsnow.com/blog/2022/01/11/how-the-lowly-shipping-container-changed-the-world/#comment-5029 Tue, 13 Feb 2024 18:34:52 +0000 https://homenewsnow.com/?p=9562#comment-5029 […] blame on two trajectories: The tremendous drop in shipping costs over the past several decades, something we’ve chronicled in this space before; and the Amazonian hunger for […]

]]> By: Entering an age of transparency | Wandering Rocks https://homenewsnow.com/blog/2022/01/11/how-the-lowly-shipping-container-changed-the-world/#comment-2367 Tue, 17 May 2022 18:24:04 +0000 https://homenewsnow.com/?p=9562#comment-2367 […] Earlier this year, I wrote two columns exploring the history of the box, the lowly shipping container, including its standardization and spiraling per unit costs to move it from one end of the earth to the other and back again. That series is archived here and here.  […]

]]> By: Thinking inside and outside the big box | Wandering Rocks https://homenewsnow.com/blog/2022/01/11/how-the-lowly-shipping-container-changed-the-world/#comment-1955 Tue, 25 Jan 2022 14:33:50 +0000 https://homenewsnow.com/?p=9562#comment-1955 […] filing the first part of this series,  on the container revolution, supply chain issues have made the front page of the dead tree […]

]]> By: How the lowly shipping container changed the world | Wandering Rocks https://homenewsnow.com/blog/2022/01/11/how-the-lowly-shipping-container-changed-the-world/#comment-1860 Tue, 11 Jan 2022 17:09:48 +0000 https://homenewsnow.com/?p=9562#comment-1860 […] First of a one-part series on the power of the box, as appearing at Home News Now […]

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