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South Carolina Ports
Author | : Shelia Hempton Watson |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738517216 |
When eight English noblemen known as the Lords Proprietors were granted the Charles Towne territory by King Charles II as a reward for their loyalty, the grant came with an express command to develop the area into a profit-making venture. Fortunately, the area came with a natural deep-water port, perfect for establishing trade. Soon trade in lumber, deerskins, and indigo established Charles Towne's wealth and prosperity, and the invention of the cotton gin and improvements in the rice crop cultivation helped boost the area's economy. By 1750, Charleston was the fourth largest city in colonial America--and the wealthiest, thanks in part to additional trade through Georgetown and Port Royal.
The Geography of Transport Systems
Author | : Jean-Paul Rodrigue |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2013-07-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1136777326 |
Mobility is fundamental to economic and social activities such as commuting, manufacturing, or supplying energy. Each movement has an origin, a potential set of intermediate locations, a destination, and a nature which is linked with geographical attributes. Transport systems composed of infrastructures, modes and terminals are so embedded in the socio-economic life of individuals, institutions and corporations that they are often invisible to the consumer. This is paradoxical as the perceived invisibility of transportation is derived from its efficiency. Understanding how mobility is linked with geography is main the purpose of this book. The third edition of The Geography of Transport Systems has been revised and updated to provide an overview of the spatial aspects of transportation. This text provides greater discussion of security, energy, green logistics, as well as new and updated case studies, a revised content structure, and new figures. Each chapter covers a specific conceptual dimension including networks, modes, terminals, freight transportation, urban transportation and environmental impacts. A final chapter contains core methodologies linked with transport geography such as accessibility, spatial interactions, graph theory and Geographic Information Systems for transportation (GIS-T). This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field, with a broad overview of its concepts, methods, and areas of application. The accompanying website for this text contains a useful additional material, including digital maps, PowerPoint slides, databases, and links to further reading and websites. The website can be accessed at: http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans This text is an essential resource for undergraduates studying transport geography, as well as those interest in economic and urban geography, transport planning and engineering.
Inquiry Into the Operations of the United State Shipping Board
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 884 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Merchant marine |
ISBN | : |
Cruising Ports
Author | : Patricia Miller Rains |
Publisher | : Mexico Boating Guide |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2000-06 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780963847027 |
The Political History of the United States of America, During the Period of Reconstruction (from April 15, 1865, to July 15, 1870,) Including a Classified Summary of the Legislation of the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses
Author | : Edward McPherson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 670 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : Freed persons |
ISBN | : |
The Foreign Commerce and Navigation of the United States
Author | : United States. Bureau of the Census |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1142 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Port Economics
Author | : Jan Owen Jansson |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780262100250 |
This study applies modern economic principles to the operations of modern port facilities, ranging from new ports in the planning stages for developing nations to established American and European ports retrofitted to handle container cargos and larger vessels. It investigates all the links in the chain of port services - the transfer of goods between land and sea transportation - and offers recommendations for strengthening the weaker links. Port Economics covers the historical development of port organization and technology, production measures, short- and long-term cost functions, pricing, and investment. The capital input by the port authorities and the labor input by the cargo-handling companies are discussed, and the authors consider the utility of merging port and stevedoring charges. Queuing processes are adjusted to fit the special circumstances of port traffic, allowing for the measurement of such variables as throughput and congestion costs. The theory developed for individual ports is extended to national port systems over time. Throughout the book, elements of the theory are tested empirically against data from ports in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The final chapter is a large-scale case-study of the Nigerian port system, which serves to test the whole of the authors' economic theory, including such concepts developed in the later chapters as dynamic port system investment and optimal port charges. Jan Owen Jansson is Chief Economist of the Swedish National Road and Traffic Research Institute. Dan Shneerson is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Haifa. Their book is the eighth in MIT Press Transportation Studies Series, edited by Marvin L. Manheim.