Containerisation and the Port Cities of the World

A containersation contributed to the decline of a lot of port cities around the world is mark levinson. Large chunks of the world's biggest and most important places got hollowed out. The container needed space, so typically the container ports were built on the edge of town. So that'd be newark, not manhattan, or brooklyn. Thad be newport news down in virginia. And that be oakland, not san francisco.