Containerschepen: boeken - historie en rederijen

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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Porte-conteneurs - la révolution des transports maritimes

The docks of the ports, invaded by the various goods freshly unloaded from the cargo ships on stopover, are now only a memory. The warehouses are now desperately empty. The small sailors' bars, the cheerful pharmacies, the sailor's houses, the shipowners' offices, so close to the ships, no longer exist. The dockers no longer go down to the bottom of the holds.
The endless lines of cargo ships docked in the basins, dug in the city centers of the great maritime metropolises, give way to marinas. Today, goods are transported in large iron boxes, with standardized dimensions. The cargo ships, with non-standardized holds, are replaced by impressively large box-carrying ships.

The containerization of maritime transport, which began in the 1970s, is a real revolution, a prelude to what would later be called globalization. It quickly took with it an entire tradition, transformed trades, eliminated others, disrupted naval architecture and the plans of ports, which had to equip themselves at great expense to receive the new container ships. It caused the disappearance of many century-old armaments.

It is this moment in history when everything changed, and its repercussions up to today, that this book aims to tell. "Porte-conteneurs - la révolution des transports maritimes" deals with the most important change experienced by this sector since the arrival on the seas of steam cargo ships, and their generalization at the beginning of the 20th century.

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