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Paul Seabright explores our trading past: the impact of a humble metal box - the shipping container. From 2018.

If there's one innovation that deserves a chapter to itself in the modern history of trade, it's the shipping container.

Paul Seabright explores the story of the humble metal box, how it took years for it to become the shape it is today, and why it has had such an impact.

Producer: Chris Ledgard.

First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in January 2018.

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15 minutes

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