0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Transport industries > Shipping industries

Buy Now

The Globalization of American Infrastructure - The Shipping Container and Freight Transportation (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,630
Discovery Miles 46 300
The Globalization of American Infrastructure - The Shipping Container and Freight Transportation (Hardcover): Matthew Heins

The Globalization of American Infrastructure - The Shipping Container and Freight Transportation (Hardcover)

Matthew Heins

Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R4,630 Discovery Miles 46 300 | Repayment Terms: R434 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 12 - 19 working days

This book gives an account of how the U.S. freight transportation system has been impacted and "globalized," since the 1950s, by the presence of the shipping container. A globally standardized object, the container carries cargo moving in international trade, and it utilizes and fits within the existing transportation infrastructures of shipping, trucking and railroads. In this way it binds them together into a nearly seamless worldwide logistics network. This process occurs not only in ocean shipping and at ports, but also deep within national territories. In its dependence on existing infrastructural systems, though, the network of container movement as it pervades domestic space is shaped by the history and geography of the nation-state. This global network is not invariably imposed in a top-down manner-to a large degree, it is cobbled together out of national, regional and local systems. Heins describes this in the American context, examining the freight transportation infrastructures of railroads, trucking and inland waterways, and also the terminals where containers are transferred between train and truck. The book provides a detailed historical narrative, and is also theoretically informed by the contemporary literature on infrastructure and globalization.

General

Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
Release date: February 2016
First published: 2016
Authors: Matthew Heins
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-18856-3
Categories: Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Transport industries > Shipping industries > General
Promotions
LSN: 1-138-18856-5
Barcode: 9781138188563

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Reeds Sea Transport - Operation and…
Patrick M. Alderton Paperback R484 Discovery Miles 4 840
A History Of The World In Twelve…
David Gibbins Paperback R531 R485 Discovery Miles 4 850
Practical Ship Design, Volume 1
D.G.M. Watson Hardcover R3,079 Discovery Miles 30 790
Coal Carriage by Sea - Carriage by Sea
John Strange, Brian Studd, … Hardcover R4,928 Discovery Miles 49 280
Neil Cockett on Bunkers
Neil Cockett Hardcover R4,933 Discovery Miles 49 330
The Eazy Cadet Revision Guide to the…
The Eazy Cadet Paperback R335 Discovery Miles 3 350
Globalisation, Policy and Shipping…
Evangelia Selkou, Michael Roe Hardcover R3,117 Discovery Miles 31 170
Applications of Machine Learning and…
Ran Yan, Shuaian Wang Hardcover R3,377 R3,048 Discovery Miles 30 480
Pocket Book of the International…
Paperback R119 Discovery Miles 1 190
The Future of the Maritime Industry
Nihan Senbursa Hardcover R11,492 Discovery Miles 114 920
Smooth Log - Memoirs of U.S. Merchant…
Arthur Randolph Murray Hardcover R1,147 Discovery Miles 11 470
The British Whaling Trade
Gordon Jackson Paperback R1,168 Discovery Miles 11 680

See more

Partners