- Title
- Shipping services in Australia's export trade and the effects of changing ship technology
- Creator
- Stonham, Paul
- Relation
- University of Newcastle Research Higher Degree Thesis
- Resource Type
- thesis
- Date
- 1970
- Description
- Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Description
- This thesis focuses on the economic effects of the technological changes that have taken place recently in international shipping, with particular reference to linear services in Australia's export trade. The new technologies are studied for all ship types - bulk carrier and tramp, tanker, and general cargo liner - but attention is concentrated on the development of unitised liner technology (containerisation and palletisation) and its economic effects in Australia's export trade. Unitisation has affected the liner shipping industry through the Conference system, competition between operators, internal cost levels and structure, and relations between land and sea-carriers. As far as Australian shippers are concerned, unitisation is bringing about changes through new freight pricing procedures, methods of rate bargaining, and trade creation or diversion. The Commonwealth Government has an active policy towards liner shipping, and the introduction of unitisation has affected the nature and efficiency of intervention in the overseas shipping market. It has a particularly marked effect on Australian general cargo ports, affecting levels of investment and causing problems of readjustment in the stevedoring industry. The analysis of these tipics draws support from study, early in the thesis, of the derived demand for shipping services in Australia's export sector and supply conditions in international shipping.
- Subject
- shipping services; ship technology; exporting; Australia's export trade; international shipping
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1312970
- Identifier
- uon:22501
- Rights
- Copyright 1970 Paul Stonham
- Language
- eng
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