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1 online resource (370 pages)
ISBN:
9780823225705
Content:
Brian Cudahy provides a vivid, fast-paced account of the container-ship revolutionGfrom the maiden voyage in 1956 of Ideal X to the entrepreneurial vision and technological breakthroughs that make it possible to ship more goods more cheaply than ever beforeGthe two hundred million containers shipped every year that are the lifeblood of the new global economy.
Content:
Intro -- Box Boats -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Cargo Ships, American Style -- Chapter 2: The Pan-Atlantic Steamship Company -- Chapter 3: From the Hudson River to Newark Bay -- Chapter 4: Sea-Land -- Chapter 5: Sea-Land Approaches Maturity -- Chapter 6: From RJR to CSX -- Chapter 7: After 1999 Horizon, Maersk-Sealand, and Beyond -- Chapter 8: Three Other Companies -- Chapter 9: The Present--And the Future -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Vessel Roster -- Appendix B: Sea-Land Liner Services, 1999 -- Appendix C: Maritime Activity at the Port of New York, Thursday, April 26, 1956 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Vessel Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780823225682
Additional Edition:
Print version Box Boats : How Container Ships Changed the World
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cudahy, Brian J. Box boats New York, NY : Fordham Univ. Press, 2006 ISBN 0823225682
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780823225682
Language:
English
Subjects:
Engineering
Keywords:
Containerschiff
;
Geschichte
;
Containerschifffahrt
;
Geschichte
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