Book Description

Contents: [1] The expanding industry. Regulatory and political constraints and their effects on liner shipping -- US regulation of international intermodal ocean cargo movements -- United States liner shipping policy: a call to reason -- Economic constraints on containerisation, co-operation and the future. [2] Comecon countries. Prospects for the development up to 1985 of container transportation between the USSR and Comecon countries -- The development of the Trans-Siberian Railroad for container transportation. [3] Container operations in developing countries. A viewpoint from India -- A Wet African viewpoint -- A South American viewpoint. [4] The future role of container leasing. [5] Container fleet tracing and computers. [6] Container life. The causes of damage to containers and ways in which damage can be prevented -- Box life evaluation study -- Corrosion in containers - causes and prevention -- Optimal paint systems for containers. [7] Cargo care (perishable commodities). Developments in the transport of perishables -- Progress in the containerised transport of perishables. [8] Cargo care (hazardous cargoes). The viewpoint of a shipper -- The deep sea operator and the carriage of dangerous goods -- Freight container traffic - carriage of dangerous goods. [9] Shipboard control and lashing techniques. [10] Regulation. The relationship between standardisation and regulation as they affect containerisation -- Container standards and the convention on international multimodal transport -- A viewpoint from the Netherlands -- A Cuban viewpoint -- The responsibilities and activities of IMCO as they relate to containerisation. [11] The International Convention for Safe Containers (CSC). Implementation of CSC in West German - a container owner's viewpoint -- US views with respect to CSC -- Implementation of CSC in the UK -- The CSC and the control of containers in Japan under Japanese regulations.