References
- Morris , J. 1969 . The great Port, A passage Through New York , Brace, New York : Harcourt .
- See, for example: Bird, J.(1957), The Geography of the Port of London(Hutchinson University Library, London); Mayer, H.M(1957), The port of Chicago and the St.lawrence Seaway (university of Chicago press, Chicago); Verlaquf, Ch.(1975), Geograhie des Transports Maritimes(Doin, Paris); Vigarie,A.(1979), Ports de Commerce et Vie Littorale(Hachette, Paris). Note also the essays and illustrations in Hoyle, B.S., and Pinder, D.A.(1982), Cityport Industrialization and Regional Development (Pergamon, Oxford).
- Kenyon , J. B. 1968 . Land use admixture in the built-up urban waterfront: extent and implications . Economic Geography , 44 ( 2 ) April : 152 – 177 .
- Albion, R. G.(1939), in The Rise of New York Port, 1815–1860(Charles Scribner's Sons, New York) and Bird(op. cit., 1957)do, however, discuss the historical patterns of various commodity trading exchanges and services in New York and London, respectively.
- Marcus , H. S. , Short , J. E. , Kuypers , J. C. and Roberts , P. O. 1976 . Federal Port Policy in the United States , 6 – 7 . Cambridge, MA : The Mit press . Quoted from a US Department of Commerce report
- Marcus, et al.(ibid), emphasized the impact of this constitutional constraint on us policy-makers.
- Waterman Steamship Corporation and States marine Lines were examples.
- This accords, for example, with legistation for public ports in the State of Washington as quoted in Port of Seattle's ‘purposes and objectives’ listed in their 1980 Annual Report.
- Dowd , T. J. 1984 . US container terminal leasing and pricing . Maritime Policy and Management , 11 ( 4 ) October–December : 277 – 288 .
- I am indebted to Mr Roderick Wagoner of Williams, Diamond, Seattle, and to the vessel owners, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, for this account of a containership's port call at seattle.
- I am indebted to James Papp of Transmarine navigation, Seattle, and the vessel owners, Yangming marine Transport, Taipei, for this account of a bulk carrier's port call for loading soybeans at Seattle.
- There was very little difference between Mr Wagoner's and Mr Papp's(footnotes above) list of necessary contacts in the 1980s and my own(as a steamship agent) in the 1940s in Houston and 1950s in Seattle.
- Fleming , D. K. 1974 . Reflections on conventional cargo linear service . Maritime Studies and Management , 1 ( 3 ) January : 178
- Kenyon, J. B.(1968), op.cit.
- Albion, R. G.(1939)op. cit.,p.l.This, of couse, was before the era of the Beatles or bombs.
- Morgan , F. W. 1952 . portsa and Horbours , London : Hutchnson University Library .
- Most of the ports, real and hypothetical, described by Conrad, J. (1915) in Victory (Doubleday, New York) were within a radius of about ‘800 miles drawn around a point in North Borneo’, a ‘magic circle’ for the ‘enchanted’ Heyst, where seas were generally ‘tepid and shallow’ beneath the ‘inanimate, brooding sunshine of the tropics’.
- Albion, R. G.(1939), op.cit., p.10, etc.
- 19.Lumber ships operated by States marine Lines and other us carriers deserted Boston because of this.
- Morris, J.(1969),op.cit.,p.5.
- See, for instance,Port of Seattle(1980),Annual Report (Port of Seattle,Seattle),P.19.
- There can be a differences, ofcourse, between an individual's personal endorsement(and vote) and the ‘company line’ of the person's employer.
- The ‘confidentiality’ of certain types of shipments(e.g., military) is a logical reason for part but not all of this.
- At some of the great port cities of the world, in the commodity exchanges and chartering exchanges-for instance, the Baltic Exchange in London-the circulation of trading and shipping information is, after negotiation, the most important service provided. Brokers, incidentally, are paid for their negotiating expertise, but also for their information evaluations.