Shipping Industries

Whilst the maritime container business has been studied in depth, the impact on shippers and how shippers deal with the given challenges has not be...

This book analyses the impact of two vital and contemporary developments on shipping law and practice: disruptive technologies and climate change.I...

This book analyses the impact of two vital and contemporary developments on shipping law and practice: disruptive technologies and climate change.I...

The United States is a maritime nation. From its origin as 13 former colonies to its place as the pre-eminent world power today, our Nation''s succ...

The Panama Canal is an important link in global trade and its expansion, which will allow passage of much larger ships, and could have significant ...

The United States is an Arctic nation. Due to climate change, the Arctic is warming faster than any other region on Earth. As the loss of sea ice c...

Based on a great deal of original research, this book documents and contextualises the managerial and operational history of DFDS in the contexts o...

These two volumes present a unique resource on the history and development of merchant shipping from the last decades of the eighteenth century to ...

The nostalgic and heart-warming account of the fortunes of G. C. Fox & Co, a Cornish family shipping business through eight generations. Pepp...

White Star Line was originally founded in Liverpool in 1845 for travel to Australia but was eventually purchased by Thomas Ismay and transformed in...

The Black Country has more miles of canal than Venice. During the industrial revolution this transport system developed to serve the steel, coal, l...

The Irrawaddy Flotilla Company, known in colonial Burma as the ''Fabulous Flotilla'', was the largest privately-owned fleet of ships in the world. ...

Many people are familiar with the term dazzle design, but what of its origins and objectives as a defensive practice at sea? And was it the only ap...

NAVIGATING AND ENGINEERING OFFICERS REQUIRED IMMEDIATELY FOR VERY LARGE CRUDE OIL CARRIER. TANKER EXPERIENCE PREFERRED. - Lloyds List and Shipping ...

On the map of global trade, China is now the factory of the world. A parade of ships full of raw commodities-iron ore, coal, oil-arrive in its port...

An interesting and insightful book exploring the authors efforts to follow in his fathers footsteps and succeed in the tumultuous fishing industry....

Freighters of the 1950s and 60s with masts, booms and hatches were the last of their generation. It was the end of an era, just before the massiv...

Cunards first ship, Britannia, set sail across the Atlantic on 4 July 1840, inaugurating a service that has endured for 175 years. Cunards success ...

Since 1840, Cunard ships have been transiting the North Atlantic with speed, grace and elegance. These great ships helped to populate nations, serv...