Latin American Shipping Conference
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Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Shipping |
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Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Shipping |
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Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Shipping |
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Author | : David Robinson |
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Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 1982* |
Genre | : Merchant marine |
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Author | : United States. Delegation to the Inter-American maritime conference |
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Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : America |
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Author | : David Robinson |
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Release | : 1979 |
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Author | : Seatrade Conferences |
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Author | : United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America |
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Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Economic development |
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Author | : United States. Delegation to the Inter-American Maritime Conference, Washington, D.C., 1940 |
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Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : Merchant marine |
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Author | : René De La Pedraja Tomán |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1999-02-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Although Latin America had a substantial merchant fleet by the 1950s, at the end of the century most of the major shipping companies have disappeared from the continent. Continuing to grow through protectionist efforts during the 1960s and 1970s, the industry began to decline when container technology, requiring large capital investments, shifted competition to access capital. This book shows how technology undermined and finally shattered the nationalist efforts to create a significant Latin American merchant shipping industry. Written in a clear and concise style, it provides the first authoritative survey of Latin American shipping during the second half of the century. The book opens with a discussion of cargo preference—a form of protectionism—in Chile and shows how Latin American merchant fleets expanded under cargo preference. Most countries witnessed a dramatic expansion in their national fleets. In the 1970s, the impact of containers, a new technology, began to be felt. As the book shows, the large capital outlays needed to adopt containers undermined the foundations of Latin American shipping companies, and most of the merchant shipping companies in the region gradually collapsed. The book also examines the non-commercial role of merchant shipping, particularly in international clashes such as the Cuban Revolution.
Author | : René De La Pedraja Tomán |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1998-09-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Latin Americans as sailors? This remark caused laughter among 19th-century foreign observers, particularly British observers. Yet, Latin Americans did struggle to create important merchant fleets, an effort largely ignored outside the region. This book rescues Latin American shipping from oblivion. In a chronological narrative, it presents the most important events in the emergence of Latin American shipping. While focusing on the shipping companies, the book also roams widely into governmental policy, foreign relations, and naval affairs. Divided into two parts, the book opens with a brief summary of the age of sailing ships, then traces the history of the first steamship companies, focusing on Brazil and Chile until 1914. Part I then goes on to analyze the impact of World War I and the Great Depression. Part II considers World War II and U.S. surplus ships. New issues in Latin American shipping, arising in the 1950s, will be discussed in another volume.