Porte-conteneurs - la révolution des transports maritimes
The docks of the ports, invaded by the various goods freshly unloaded from the cargo ships on stopover, are now only a memory. The warehouses are now desperately empty. The small sailors' bars, the cheerful pharmacies, the sailor's houses, the shipowners' offices, so close to the ships, no longer exist. The dockers no longer go down to the bottom of the holds.
The endless lines of cargo ships docked in the basins, dug in the city centers of the great maritime metropolises, give way to marinas. Today, goods are transported in large iron boxes, with standardized dimensions. The cargo ships, with non-standardized holds, are replaced by impressively large box-carrying ships.
The containerization of maritime transport, which began in the 1970s, is a real revolution, a prelude to what would later be called globalization. It quickly took with it an entire tradition, transformed trades, eliminated others, disrupted naval architecture and the plans of ports, which had to equip themselves at great expense to receive the new container ships. It caused the disappearance of many century-old armaments.
It is this moment in history when everything changed, and its repercussions up to today, that this book aims to tell. "Porte-conteneurs - la révolution des transports maritimes" deals with the most important change experienced by this sector since the arrival on the seas of steam cargo ships, and their generalization at the beginning of the 20th century.
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| Author: | Jérôme Billard |
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| Details: | 192 pages, 31 x 23.5 cm / 12.2 x 9.25 in, hardback |
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| Illustrations: | 50 b&w and 250 colour photos |
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| Publisher: | ETAI (F, 2003) |
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| ISBN: | 9782726893401 |
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