Across the pond: container shipping on the North Atlantic in the era of globalisation

摘要: This paper describes the development of containerisation in one most important theatres maritime trade, North Atlantic. As original hearth containerisation, it has been an area experimentation and evolution for a technology that burst around world. Although over last decade Atlantic superceded by Pacific Ocean as major market focus containers, still is arena. The emergence global shipping networks tending to favour once again. provides analysis these recent developments.