Quote by Marc Levinson

Trade carried by sea has grown fourfold since 1970 and is still growing. In 2011, the 360 commercial ports of the United States took…

— Rose George

Before containers, transport costs ate up 25 percent of the value of whatever was being shipped.

— Rose George

Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per…

— Ban Ki-moon

Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.

— Irwin Redlener

Shipping by sea produces 1/60 the emissions of shipping by air and about 1/5 that of trucking.

— Daniel Goleman

“The container is at the core of a highly automated system for moving goods from anywhere, to anywhere, with a minimum of cost and…

— Marc Levinson

Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and…

— Allyson Schwartz

“As late as 1912, Britain carried more than half the goods shipped across the seas of the”

— Thomas Sowell

When I was secretary of state, we actually increased American exports globally 30 percent. We increased them to China 50 percent.

— Hillary Clinton

Imports remain a concern with the currency holding at $US0.75 cents and cost pressures persist, in particular for power and transport.

— Christofer Drew

There's always been an assumption that ocean shipping coming in and out of the Great Lakes is critical to the economy. It isn't.

— John Taylor

Substantial progress was made in spreading our foreign trade to other areas. Our total trade with Northwest Europe in the first 8 months of…

— Ramon Magsaysay