The Role of Coastal Shipping in UK Transport:

This book collects seventeen previously published essays by John Armstrong concerning the British coastal trade. Armstrong is a leading maritime historian and the essays provided here offer a thorough exploration of the British coastal trade, his specialisation, during the period of industrialisation and technological development that would lead to modern shipping. The purpose is to demonstrate the whether or not the coastal trade was the main carrier of internal trade and a pioneer of the technical developments that modernised the shipping industry. Each essay makes an original contribution to the field and covers a broad range of topics, including the fluctuating importance of the coastal trade and size of the coastal fleet over time; the relationship between coastal shipping, canals, and railways; a comparison between the coastal liner and coastal tramp trade; the significance of the river Thames in enabling trade; coastal trade economics; maritime freight rates; the early twentieth century shipping depression; competition between coastal liner companies; and a detailed study of the role of the government in coastal shipping. The book also contains case studies of the London coal trade; coastal trade through the River Dee port; and the Liverpool-Hull trade route. It contains a foreword, introduction, and bibliography of Armstrong’s writings. There is no overall conclusion, except the assertion that coastal shipping plays a tremendous role in British maritime history, and a call for further research into the field.

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The Role of Coastal Shipping in UK Transport: An Estimate of Comparative Traffic Movements in 1910

The Vital Spark ◽

10.5949/liverpool/9780986497308.003.0013 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 243-260

Author(s):

John Armstrong

Keyword(s):

Royal Commission ◽

Shipping Industry ◽

Isle Of Wight ◽

Isle Of Man ◽

Freight Traffic ◽

Coastal Shipping ◽

Accurate Picture ◽

Transport Industry ◽

Canal Shipping

This chapter aims to estimate the amount of work performed by the coastal shipping industry in 1910 in relation to the rail and canal transport counterparts. It examines the services offered by the coastal industry in this period that the railway could not provide - such as ferrying to remote regions such as the Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, and Scottish islands. It compares and contrasts rail, canal, and coastal services by examining freight traffic; coal shipping; bills of entry; the Royal Commission on Canals; steamship company records; and Parliamentary papers to paint an accurate picture of the British transport industry in the pre-war period. It concludes that the shipping distribution in 1910 was fifty-nine percent coastal; thirty-nine percent rail, and two percent canal - and insists that coastal and canal shipping should not be paired together when discussing the rise of the railway as they were fundamentally distinct.

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The role of Bangladeshi ports in developing integrated intermodal freight transportation system in South Asia

Maritime Technology and Research ◽

10.33175/mtr.2019.175760 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. Manuscript

Author(s):

Razon Chandra Saha

Keyword(s):

South Asia ◽

Manufacturing Industry ◽

Container Terminal ◽

Freight Transportation ◽

Transportation System ◽

Coastal Shipping ◽

Intermodal Freight ◽

Real Scenario ◽

The One

This paper aims to find out the role of Bangladeshi ports in South Asia for developing integrated intermodal freight transportation system to mitigate the demand of port transport in the region through container from port to inland container depot or dry port or inland container terminal even from/to shipper/consignee premises. The strategic location of Bangladeshi ports in the Bay of Bengal are lucrative for the international traders, investors and others to invest in the port industry as well as manufacturing industry to develop international trade in South Asia especially in India, Nepal , Bhutan and Bangladesh . In addition, Bangladesh has opportunity to serve Myanmar through coastal shipping and road haulage of containers. In here, port rivalry among the ports of Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka is described to focus the importance of Bangladeshi ports also to get the real scenario of port facilities in South Asia. At the end of the paper, deep port initiative is attributed to connect with the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative of China. Finally, in the view of intermodal freight transportation and port competition in the regions, future directions are stated for Bangladeshi ports to compete with others in the South Asian region.

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The Cinderella of the Transport World: The Historiography of the British Coastal Trade

The Vital Spark ◽

10.5949/liverpool/9780986497308.003.0017 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 327-346

Author(s):

John Armstrong

Keyword(s):

Current Knowledge ◽

Academic Research ◽

Coastal Shipping ◽

The Subject ◽

The Impact

This final chapter evaluates the historiography of the British coastal trade as it stood when first published in 1996. It highlights the lack of academic research into coastal shipping, offers suggestions for the scholarly neglect of the subject, and outlines the current knowledge of the economics and overall impact of the coastal trade in relation to the modernisation of Britain. It highlights articles discussing the impact of canal and rail construction, the impact of both World Wars, and the multifaceted role of Coastal Shipping in an industrialised Britain. It concludes that without coastal shipping, coal and foodstuffs would have been much more difficult to distribute around Britain and industrialisation and urbanisation would have struggled to progress as a result. It echoes the call of previous chapters for further research into the British coastal shipping, to better understand the sector and its importance to maritime Britain.

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Management Response in British Coastal Shipping Companies to Railway Competition

The Vital Spark ◽

10.5949/liverpool/9780986497308.003.0004 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 61-76

Author(s):

John Armstrong

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Short Distance ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Long Distance ◽

Short Sea Shipping ◽

Coastal Shipping ◽

Rail Industry ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

The Impact

This essay examines the way British coastal shipping companies handled competition from the rail industry. It explores the role of coastal shipping before the advent of rail; the impact of steam on short-sea shipping; the perceived minor threat of short-distance early railways; the direct threat of long-distance rail lines that began to appear in the 1840s; and the effectiveness of the attempts to address railway competition - the search for technological improvement, market segmentation, and re-pricing structures in particular. It concludes that the coaster and railway industries co-existed peacefully during the late nineteenth century as it served both of their interests, and assures that any serious threat to rail that the coastal industry could instigate would be met with swift and crippling retaliation, so they opted not to risk upsetting the balance.

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Case Article—Coastal Shipping for Automobile Distribution

INFORMS Transactions on Education ◽

10.1287/ited.2021.0253ca ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 28-34

Author(s):

Saurabh Chandra ◽

Amit Kumar Vatsa

Keyword(s):

Linear Programming ◽

Mixed Integer Linear Programming ◽

Sustainable Transportation ◽

Mixed Integer ◽

Theoretical Discussion ◽

Solution Quality ◽

Mode Shift ◽

Coastal Shipping ◽

Solution Methods

With growing concerns related to the environment, sustainable transportation has gained importance. For geographies with an ample coastline, coastal shipping offers a sustainable transportation option to move massive freight quantities. This paper presents a case that allows students to appreciate the role of coastal shipping in multimodal logistics planning. Furthermore, it gives students an opportunity to mathematically model transportation planning at a strategic and tactical level for automotive distribution. The students learn how to assess the financial viability of a mode shift from roadways to coastal shipping. The instructors can use this case for theoretical discussion on multimodal logistics and the application of mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) and heuristics as solution methods. Furthermore, the case presents an opportunity to demonstrate the improvement in solution quality with an MILP solver compared with heuristics.

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