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The Strategic Consequences of Containerization

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The time- and space-shrinking capacity of the freight container has radically stimulated global interconnectedness. It has also raised some significant global security issues. These pertain particularly to the global tracking of freight containers and their contents. Most evident in this regard is the container’s ability to aid illicit global actors—particularly terrorists—in the transport of highly dangerous materials, such as nuclear weapons, into any one of the world’s sea- or airports. Just as the September 11, 2001 (9/11), terrorists commandeered the global air network, they could also infiltrate and utilize shipping containers in order to mount equally or even more devastating attacks.

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Hoovestal, L.E. (2013). The Strategic Consequences of Containerization. In: Globalization Contained. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137315915_5

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