10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONTAINER SHIP»
Discover the use of
container ship in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
container ship and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible ...
Sharply informative and entertaining, Ninety Percent of Everything reveals the workings and perils of an unseen world that holds the key to our economy, our environment, and our very civilization.
For maximum economy in the design of any container ship, the dimensions
should be such that containers can be stacked up in tiers to the limit permitted by
stability. To maximise numbers, the upper tiers, subject to the owners agreement,
...
3
Box Boats: How
Container Ships Changed the World
In this fascinating book, transportation expert Brian Cudahy provides a vivid, fast-paced account of the container-ship revolution - from the maiden voyage of the Ideal X to the entrepreneurial vision and technological breakthroughs that ...
4
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller ...
The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about.
5
Design of
Ship Hull Structures: A Practical Guide for Engineers
Because the stress of a hatch corner of a container ship is influenced by several
factors as explained in the previous section, the optimum shape that minimizes
the stress level or stress variation is not necessarily similar to that shown in Fig.
Yasuhisa Okumoto, Yu Takeda, Masaki Mano, 2009
6
Container Ship Register
With survey of container ship operators, owners, builders and trade routes.
7
Pitcairn Island as a Port of Call: A Record, 1790-2010, 2d ed.
AUGUST 15 • Container ship America Star, from Panama, bound for New
Zealand, takes two persons from the island. AUGUST 23 • Yacht Cruisealong,
from Man- gareva, bound for Easter Island. AUGUST 27 • Container ship
Melbourne Star, ...
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The Shipping Industry: The Technology and Economics of ...
Container Ships A container ship is illustrated in Figure 3.2. Although the first
generation vessels were converted conventional ships, this type of ship is
specifically designed to carry containers. All the early ships were independent
units in that ...
9
Trends and Future Challenges for U.S. National Ocean and ...
The next phase, the age of the mega- container ship, came rapidly once that
point had been reached. The Mega-Container Ship is Unveiled The definition of
the mega-container ship has changed in lock step with the construction of larger
and ...
Nancy Marie Foster, Biliana Cicin-Sain, Robert W. Knecht
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Proceedings of the 15th International
Ship and Offshore ...
An 8000 TEU container ship study made by a German industry consortium under
the leadership of HowaldswerkeDeutsche Werft AG (HDW) was completed by the
end of 1997 (Kraus, 1999). The detailed structural design was carried out in ...
A.E Mansour, R.C Ertekin, 2003
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONTAINER SHIP»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
container ship is used in the context of the following news items.
MarketsContainer ship industry will hardly break even
Drewry, a well-respected consultancy, predicts the container ship industry will be "lucky to break even this year" as shipping rates slump due to ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
Largest container ships on order to rise 13 percent by 2020
The size of the largest container ship on order accelerated in 2000, when the average vessel size rose to 8,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units ... «JOC.com, Jul 15»
Two more vessels sink in monsoon seas off Phuket
The Cambodian-registered container ship Sinaran Andaman was driven onto shoreline rocks and sank at Koh Hae near Phuket on Wednesday ... «Bangkok Post, Jul 15»
Things named after other things or sometimes after people special!
“On a recent tour of Rotterdam Docks I noticed a container ship called Borussia Dortmund, painted, of course, in garish yellow and black,” wrote ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Port improvements could increase traffic
... biennial budget for 2015-17 for projects to improve a docking berth and build two new cranes to handle additional container ship traffic. «StarNewsOnline.com, Jul 15»
U.S. trade deficit widened in May
In this Jan. 6, 2015 photo, the MOL Competence, a 1036-foot long, 150-foot wide container ship carrying 45,000 tons of cargo, is moored at the ... «Tribune-Review, Jul 15»
Italy holds funeral for 13 migrants killed in shipwreck
... of the smuggler's fishing boat, which capsized when rescuers aboard a nearby container ship approached in waters off Libya on April 18. «WTVC, Jul 15»
News Snatch: The Division, Nier, Driveclub, Myriad and Moths
“The container ship had probably 500 of those railroad cars on them and Infinity was in there, but one of the other containers on the ship ... «TheSixthAxis, Jul 15»
Container lines unlikely to avoid Suez Canal despite foiled attack
... grenade attack),” said Doherty referring to a 2013 attack by suspected terrorists on a Cosco Asia container ship transiting the waterway. «JOC.com, Jul 15»
Search for man overboard enters recovery phase
A police dive squad and the navy are expected to join the search for the body of a man who fell from a container ship on Thursday. «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
