This web feature was written by Gavin McLean and produced by the NZHistory.net.nz team.
Links
- ‘Thinking inside the box’ (BBC News)
- ‘Lessons learned as the Box returns’ (BBC News)
- ‘Twelve amazing shipping container houses’ (Yahoo! Green)
Books
- Frank Broeze, Research in Maritime History No. 23, The Globalisation of the Oceans: Containerisation From the 1950s to the Present, International Maritime Economic History Association, St John’s, Newfoundland, 2002
- A.D. Couper (ed.), The Shipping Revolution: The Modern Merchant Ship, Conway Maritime Press, London, 1992
- Marc Levinson, The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2006
- Gavin McLean, We Were Different: The Tasman Express Line Story, Ventures Two Limited, Auckland, 2004
- Nick Tolerton, Spirit of the Coast: The Story of Pacifica Shipping and 25 Years of Struggle and Triumph Against the Tides, Steele Roberts, Wellington, 2010
