Not exact matches
In this episode, Maritime History Professor Arthur Donovan talks about cargo
containerization and how it transformed world markets.
So I'm playing with the idea that the beginning of
containerization and the passage of the Federal Interstate Highway Act are
in fact intermittently related to the same cause: the decay of the existing road system.
In this sense I think that Malcom McLean's [Marshall McLuhan]'s notion of a global village has been extended, if you like, because he was talking mostly about media; but it has been extended to products and to production and, in this sense of globalization, globalization depends on containerizatio
In this sense I think that Malcom McLean's [Marshall McLuhan]'s notion of a global village has been extended, if you like, because he was talking mostly about media; but it has been extended to products and to production and,
in this sense of globalization, globalization depends on containerizatio
in this sense of globalization, globalization depends on
containerization.
Using prefabrication, modular construction and
containerization, the project can be built
in a country (probably China) where there are lots of workers and more moderate temperatures.
Also notable, the immense crash
in sample size since 1985, yet another effect of the amazing consolidation
in marine business (mostly due to
containerization) and huge drawdown
in Western navies.
Container ships move more goods with less human - effort per unit shipped and with much more regular schedules than did ships prior to
containerization and during the age of sail, but
in terms of sailing speed alone, we're not moving things about markedly faster than we used to.