Porte-conteneurs : livres - histoire et armateurs

Porte-conteneurs - la révolution des transports maritimes

Les quais des ports, envahis par les marchandises diverses fraîchement débarquées des cargos en escale, ne sont plus qu'un souvenir. Les entrepôts sont désormais désespérément vides. Les petits bars à matelots, les officines joyeuses, les maisons du marin, les bureaux des armateurs, si proches des navires, n'existent plus. Les dockers ne descendent plus au fond des cales.
Les alignements à perte de vue de navires de charge accostés dans les bassins, creusés au centre-ville même des grandes métropoles maritimes, laissent la place à des marinas. Aujourd'hui, les marchandises se transportent dans de grosses boîtes de fer, aux dimensions standardisées. Les cargos, aux cales non standardisées, sont remplacés par des navires porte-boîtes, de taille impressionnante.

La conteneurisation des transports maritimes, débutée durant les années 1970, est une véritable révolution, un prélude à ce qu'on appellera plus tard la mondialisation. Elle emporte rapidement avec elle toute une tradition, transforme des métiers, en supprime d'autres, bouleverse l'architecture navale et les plans des ports, qui doivent s'équiper à grands frais pour recevoir les nouveaux porte-conteneurs. Elle fait disparaître de très nombreux armements centenaires.

C'est ce moment d'histoire où tout bascule, et ses répercussions jusqu'à aujourd'hui, que ce livre se propose de raconter. "Porte-conteneurs, la révolution des transports maritimes" traite de la plus importante mutation vécue par ce secteur depuis l'arrivée sur les mers des cargos à vapeur, et leur généralisation au début du XXe siècle.

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Looking Back at Container Ships

In this latest addition to Andrew Wiltshire's Looking Back series, we take a fifty year journey exploring container ships from around the world. Learn about the ships that have rapidly changed the face of worldwide shipping and global trade today and the consortia formed to operate them.
A chronological look at container ships from the early conversions through to the giants that have entered service in the last few years.

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Containerschiffe - auf allen Weltmeeren (Typenkompass)

In just a few decades, container ships have not only influenced but also changed the entire transport and logistics processes worldwide. Larger and larger ships have been built at ever shorter intervals. In 1950, the first container ships from the USA sailed the world's oceans.

This Typenkompass by Horst W. Laumanns, himself a specialist journalist, editor and historian, traces the development of the ship class and presents selected and special container ships in the tried and tested Typenkompass style. Here, readers will find numerous data and facts about the individual types.

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Geschichte des Seecontainers und der Intermodal-Wechselbehälter

The author, Ulrich Cramer, a trained motor vehicle and aircraft engineer, has been working on transport rationalization projects since the early 1960s. First at the vehicle and equipment manufacturer MAFI and from 1971 with his own engineering firm CONTEC. Numerous innovations can be traced back to his engineering work.
In this book, he describes from his own experience how the beginnings of container transport in the USA in the early 1950s developed into global, trimodal transport to the smallest corner of the world.

Cramer tells the story from the perspective of a technician. He himself had applied for a patent for the idea of the "MAFI Rolltrailer" in 1966. In 1967, he and MAFI built the first steel containers for the first European container shipping consortium ACL.
When container traffic began in Europe in 1966 and the sea container was still considered a "dead elephant", he and MAFI built the "Portalift", the first "container portal vehicle" from Europe. He played a key role in the steel container quickly gaining its dominant position.

Ulrich Cramer did pioneering work with the construction of the first container factory in China in 1980, which is now the largest container manufacturer in the world, and the construction of the first two 20-foot steel containers for CIMC in 1981. He transferred his technical knowledge of container construction to numerous projects in the field of inland containers and swap bodies, as well as to the development of associated transport and handling equipment.

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