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Fifty years ago on April 26, 1956, the freighter Ideal X steamed from Berth 26 in Port Newark, New Jersey. Flying the flag of the Pan-Atlantic Steamship Company, she set out for Houston with an unusual cargo: 58 trailer trucks lashed to her top deck. But they weren't trucks: they were steel con...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cudahy, Brian J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2006.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
Container ships > History.
Containerization > History.
Porte-conteneurs > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > General.
Container ships
Containerization
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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