Box Boats : : How Container Ships Changed the World / / Brian J. Cudahy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Cudahy, Brian J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 50 Illustrations, black and white

Fifty years ago—on April 26, 1956—the freighter Ideal X steamed from Berth 26 in Port Newark, New Jersey. Flying the flag of the Pan-Atlantic Steamship Company, she set out for Houston with an unusual cargo: 58 trailer trucks lashed to her top deck. But they weren’t trucks—they were steel containers...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• 1 Cargo Ships, American Style: A Primer
• 2 The Pan-Atlantic Steamship Company: 1933–57
• 3 From the Hudson River to Newark Bay: 1915–48
• 4 Sea-Land: The First Decade, 1956–66
• 5 Sea-Land Approaches Maturity: 1966–85
• 6 From RJR to CSX: 1985–99
• 7 After 1999: Horizon, Maersk-Sealand, and Beyond
• 8 Three Other Companies 206
• 9 The Present—and the Future
• EPILOGUE: THE U.S. NAVY’S T-AKR-CLASS FAST SEALIFT SHIPS
• Appendix A: vessel roster
• Appendix B: sea-land liner services, 1999
• Appendix C: maritime activity at the port of New York, Thursday, April 26, 1956
• Notes
• Bibliography
• General index
• Vessel index