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Written by a leading maritime specialist, this is a critical history of the origins and development of containerisation in liner shipping and how the container revolution in the industry-affected individual shipping companies, ports, other modes of transport, global and regional port systems, labour forces, and port vicinities. Covering the period from the late 1950s to the present, the book begins with a detailed explanation of the elements of containerisation, followed by an examination of the growth of the industry to the mid 1980s.

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