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Who cares about the cargo?: Container economies in a European transshipment port.

While the shipping container has been hyped as the most potent symbol of global trade, it is simultaneously a unit of measure, a medium of exchange, and a material abstraction of heterogeneous use value. This article places the container and its anonymized cargo as part of the everyday logistics of...

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Published in:Focaal no. 89; pp. 52 - 64
Main Author: Leivestad, Hege Høyer
Format: Article
Published: Berghahn Books Mar2021
Subjects:
Unitized cargo systems
Shipping containers
Transshipment
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