Box Boats
Subtitle: How Container Ships Changed the World
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: September 17, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780823225699
Subjects: Maritime History; Ships & shipping: general interest; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Business & Economics; Transportation; Business/Economics; Ships & Shipbuilding - History; General
First sentence: Oceangoing cargo ships have never rivaled passenger linersor, for that matter, sailing ships, naval vessels, or paddlewheel steamboatsas objects of general interest and curiosity.