''The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger'' is a non-fiction book by

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charting the historic rise of the

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(shipping container) and how it changed the economic landscape of the global economy. The ''

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'' called it "a smart, engaging book". The book inspired the name for the project " The Box" run by

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from September 2008 onwards, in which the BBC were tracking a container for a period of one year. ''The Box'' won a bronze medal in the

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(2007) in the "Finance/Investment/Economics" category. It also won the 2007 Anderson Medal from the Society for Nautical Research. ''The Box'' was shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award (2006).

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