Author: S. N. SanklechaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Tramp Shipping in India
Author: S. N. SanklechaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Tramp Ships
Author: Roy FentonPublisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1848321589
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
The tramp ship was the taxi of the seas. With no regular schedules, it voyaged anywhere and everywhere, picking up and dropping off cargoes, mainly bulk cargoes such as coal, grain, timber, china clay and oil. It was the older and slower vessels that tended to find their way into this trade, hence the tag 'tramp', though new tramps were built, often with the owner's eye on chartering to the liner companies. In this new book by the well-known author Roy Fenton, their evolution is described over the course of more than 100 years, from the 1860s, when the steam tramp developed from the screw collier, until it was largely replaced by the specialist bulk carrier in the 1980s. ??An introduction looks at the design and building of tramps before going on to describe the machinery, from simple triple-expansion turbines to diesel engines. Their operation and management and the life of the officers and crews is also covered. The meat of the book is to be found in the 300 wonderfully evocative photographs of individual ships which illustrate the development of the tramp and its trades through the last years of the 19th century, the two world wars, and the postwar years. Each caption gives the dimensions, the owners and the builder, and outlines the career, with notes on trades and how they changed over a ship's lifetime. Design features are highlighted and notes on machinery included. This will become a classic work, to inspire all merchant ship enthusiasts and historians.
World Trade Information Service
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
World Trade Information Service
Author: Kaybee's Indian shipping annual
Author: The Shipping Industry of Japan
Author: Joseph D. TravisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Liner Shipping in India's Overseas Trade
Author: T. K. SaranganPublisher: New York : United Nations
ISBN:
Category : Cargo ships
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Transport
Author: A Short History of Modern Indian Shipping
Author: T S. Sanjeeva RaoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A History of British Tramp Shipping, 1870-1914 (Volume 1)
Author: Gordon H. BoycePublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1835532896
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Celebrated in the novels of Joseph Conrad and vintage films, tramp ships - the precursor of bulk carriers - are not well understood today. Yet, these vessels transported in bulk essential minerals and ores, grains, timber, and other commodities and played a vital role in creating the modern global economy. While the histories of some individual tramp firms have been written, this book uses personal correspondence and surviving company records to chart the development of the entire industry - the largest in the world- during a period of transformational technical change. Who were the bold, risk-takers who founded tramp firms? How did they mobilise the resources needed to enter this dynamic sector, build immense companies, and accumulate vast fortunes? Why did others fail? This study reveals how executives learned ‘the art’ of managing tramps and developed strategic networking skills. Tramp shipping resonates with many of today’s high-growth industries: it was an information intensive, high stress operation that required rapid - sometimes instinctive - decision-making within a turbulent market. Building business networks was supported by a distinctive culture that streamlined communication. This innovative study places information, knowledge, learning, culture, and communication at the centre of the analysis in order to transport readers into the minds of those fascinating entrepreneurs who helped build the modern world.