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“In 1961, before the container was in international use, ocean freight costs alone accounted for 12 percent of the value of U.S. exports and…

— Marc Levinson

“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

“By far the biggest expense in this process was shifting the cargo from land transport to ship at the port of departure and moving…

— Marc Levinson

It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We…

— Andrew Natsios

When you have a transportation system that the price of propellant is essentially negligible something is very wrong. If you look at any other…

— Burt Rutan

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

When the commodities go up and the cost of transportation is going up, and the value of the dollar is going down, it's all…

— John Catsimatidis

I never confuse the cost of something with its value

— Robin Hobb

“Our stores were selling only nine items, and they were buying only thirty-five or forty items with which to make the nine. So although…

— Ray Kroc

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

— Christofer Drew