The globalisation of the oceans : containerisation from the 1950s to the present

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Label

The globalisation of the oceans : containerisation from the 1950s to the present

Title remainder

containerisation from the 1950s to the present

Statement of responsibility

Frank Broeze

Creator

• Broeze, Frank

Contributor

• Broeze, Frank

Editor

• Broeze, Frank

Subject

• Containerization -- Economic aspects | History
• Shipping -- Economic aspects | History
• Container ships

Language

eng

Summary

This book maintains that container shipping is vital to the actualisation of globalisation, and that without it, globalisation would remain a concept rather than reality. It argues that container shipping has been academically overlooked as a global business sector in favour of more prominent sectors such as oil or arms trade, and aims to provide a complete history of containerisation from the 1950s to the turn of the millennium. This history explores the growth of the container industry due to prominent innovation in vessel design, early adoption of the internet, large international mergers, and significant physical alterations to the global port system. With particular emphasis on the east-west trade, the chapters cover the growth and development of the container industry, to the social changes experienced by seafaring labour forces, the cultural impact of the container - bringing a domineering land-presence to maritime activity, through to the environmental concerns surrounding the industry. The study is not a quantitative economic analysis of the industry, rather, an updated history that strives to demonstrate the importance of transport infrastructures to any consideration of global business sectors, by providing evidence of the container industry’s stimulation of the global economy.--

Member of

• Research in maritime history, no. 23

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Research in maritime history
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Series volume

no. 23