The Ocean Carrier A History And Analysis Of The Service And A Discussion Of The Rates Of Ocean Transportation PDF Download

Excerpt from The Ocean Carrier: A History and Analysis of the Service and a Discussion of the Rates of Ocean Transportation This book is the outgrowth of the study of three questions - the development of line traffic, the combinations among carriers to control rates, and the combination of steamship lines and railways. This work has occupied a considerable part of my time for three years, and came after the completion of a monograph on the Organization of Ocean Commerce, which in turn was the outgrowth of investigations begun for the United States Government's Isthmian Canal Commission in I899-I90I. It should be noted that this is a study primarily of the ocean service - it is an economic study. From start to finish I have been struck with the astonishing absence of any such point of view in the minds of the numerous writers who have dealt with the activities of the ocean. The biographies of men and of ships and the technical details of ships appear to have been the interesting things. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.