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Box boats : how container ships changed the world / Brian J. Cudahy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cudahy, Brian J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Container ships--History.
- Container ships.
- Containerization--History.
- Containerization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (370 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cargo ships, American style : a primer
- The Pan-Atlantic Steamship Company : 1933-57
- From the Hudson River to Newark Bay : 1915-48
- Sea-Land : the first decade, 1956-66
- Sea-Land approaches maturity : 1966-85
- From RJR to CSX : 1985-99
- After 1999 : Horizon, Maersk-Sealand, and beyond
- Three other companies
- The present and the future.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-4751-1
- 0-8232-2570-4
- OCLC:
- 647876550
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