The Rise of Maritime Containerization in the Port of Oakland: 1950 to 1970 |
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7th Street Terminal additional adopting containerization Alameda Bay Area berths Bradford California cargo handling carrying channels chapter City common carriers competition Conference construction container facility container operations container service containerships Corps of Engineers costs cranes critical dredging early economies-of-scale Elizabethport environmental Executive Director Federal Maritime feet freight Grace Line Hawaii Horace Carpentier ILWU increased initial intercoastal intermodal Interstate Commerce Commission Japan Japanese steamship firms labor lease Line's loaded marine terminal maritime industry Matson Navigation Company McLean MCTC military million N.Y.K. Line Nutter Oakland October Oakland September Outer Harbor Pacific percent Port of Oakland Port of San Port's newsletter Pressman and Wildavsky rail railroad regulation regulatory rise of containerization roll-on roll-off routes San Francisco Bay Sea-Land Service shippers ships steamship lines tariffs trade trailer truck U.S. Army U.S. Maritime Administration United vessels Vietnam Vietnam War waterfront West Coast Wildavsky 1973
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Page 76 - It is necessary for the national defense and development of its foreign and domestic commerce...
Page 76 - ... of the United States and to provide shipping service on all routes essential for maintaining the flow of such domestic and foreign waterborne commerce at all times; (b) capable of serving as a naval and military auxiliary in time of war or national emergency; (c) owned and operated under the United States flag by citizens of the United States insofar as may be practicable; and (d) composed of the best-equipped, safest, and most suitable type of vessels, constructed in the United States and manned...
Page 62 - Rates of a carrier shall not be held up to a particular level to protect the traffic of any other mode of transportation, giving due consideration to the objectives of the national transportation policy declared in this act.
Page 76 - States and to provide shipping service on all routes essential for maintaining the flow of such domestic and foreign waterborne commerce at all times, (b) capable of serving as a naval and military auxiliary in time of war or national emergency, (c) owned and operated under the United States flag by citizens of the United States insofar as may be practicable, and (d) composed of the best-equipped, safest, and most suitable types of vessels, constructed in the United States and manned with a trained...
Page 76 - ... operated under the United States flag by citizens of the United States insofar as may be practicable, and (d) composed of the best-equipped, safest, and most suitable types of vessels, constructed in the United States and manned with a trained and efficient citizen personnel. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to foster the development and encourage the maintenance of such a merchant marine.
Page 61 - Policy, as you said, provides for fair and impartial regulation of all modes of transportation — to recognize and preserve the inherent advantages of each...
Page 52 - Rationale of Tug and Barge Transportation," presented at the New York Metropolitan Section of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers on March 23, 1967.
Page 7 - A study of the future of a marine terminal industry and of the feasibility of developing new marine terminal facilities in Oakland. California; Phase III report (Report no.
Page 107 - our people felt the Federal government was going a little too far in telling us how to run our business." Other critics, with a different perspective, felt that most of the EDA money would "help the Vietnam war effort rather than the poor. World Airways gains much of its revenue for transporting cargo to Vietnam and the Marine Terminal would accommodate increased military traffic.
Page 123 - Most Notorious Victory: Man in an Age of Automation (New York: The Free Press, 1966). JANUARY 1967 trialism, and the "hipster" mocks the traditional work preoccupations of the "square.