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

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.

The Vital Spark

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Technological Development ◽  
Shipping Industry ◽  
Freight Rates ◽  
Technical Developments ◽  
Coastal Shipping ◽  
The Government ◽  
Trade Route ◽  
Role Of The Government ◽  
The Relationship

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.

The place and role of analytical research of personnel training processes for the transport industry

2021 ◽  
pp. 94-101
Author(s):  
E. G. Shepilova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Institution ◽  
Training System ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Positive Development ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Personnel Training ◽  
Educational Values ◽  
Transport Industry ◽  
Analytical Research

The defining role of analytical research of personnel training processes for the transport industry is indicated. In particular, the possibility of using the vicious Knall’s circles to identify problems in the development of transport education is investigated. The traditional functionality of the Knall’s circles has been expanded to the study of the mechanisms of positive development of the research object. Two types of models for describing these processes are proposed and analyzed, taking into account both additive and multiplicative effects of development. Using concrete examples, the methodology for constructing various types of process models, selecting the optimal type of model and predicting development is shown. A systematic approach to the study of transport education is also proposed to be implemented using the tools of cenological analysis, which takes into account all participants in the personnel training system in the industry. The scientific and educational values of transport education allow us to determine the completeness and stability of the educational system, the direction of development (degradation, positive development of the system), the role and place of an individual educational institution in the personnel training system. The cytological study is illustrated by the example of the analysis of the results of the activities of branch railway universities. Scientific and educational self-regulating organizations for training specialists for the regional transport system are considered as one of the mechanisms for managing transport education. It is proposed to create self-regulating organizations of personnel training that regulate the activities of educational institutions, both among themselves and with consumers of educational services.

The Role of the Entrepreneur in the Shipping Industry

1983 ◽  
Vol 1983 (12) ◽  
pp. 4-6
Author(s):  
Arnljot Stromme Svendsen
Keyword(s):  
Shipping Industry

The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)

Antiquity ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 55 (214) ◽  
pp. 106-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Track Record ◽  
Original Title ◽  
Historical Monuments ◽  
Historic Monuments ◽  
New Framework

My original title deliberately contained several layers of ambiguity. First, my paper is official and ‘on the record’. Secondly, it refers incidentally to RCHM'S ‘track record’ and makes a few observations about the Commission's achievements and failures. Thirdly, and most importantly, it discusses the nature and future of that part of the national record of England's cultural heritage for which the Commission has the prime responsibility. That responsibility, implicit in the original 1908 Royal Warrant, and made explicit in its revised Warrant of 1963, involves the acquisition, storage and dissemination of information about the country's historic monuments and constructions in the widest sense of the phrase. The development of such a national record was envisaged by those who, in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, agitated for the setting up of a Commission-type body. The record was to be the basis on which such a body could carry out its most pressing function, that is to assess the nation's monumental heritage in order to advise on what is worthy of preservation. A whole history could be written on how and why things turned out differently, but what I want to do here is to adumbrate the new framework for the changing emphases in the role of the Commission in the later twentieth century.

scholarly journals The role of mangroves in supporting shipping industry commitments to environmental protection and sustainable development

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pham T.T. ◽  
Nguyễn Thị V.A. ◽  
Nguyễn Thị T.A. ◽  
Tăng Thị K.H. ◽  
Đặng H.P. ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Shipping Industry

From midden to megalith? The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in western Britain

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicki Cummings
Keyword(s):  
Transition Process ◽  
The Other ◽  
Irish Sea ◽  
Technological Transformation ◽  
Neolithic Transition ◽  
Isle Of Man ◽  
The Past ◽  
Hunting And Gathering ◽  
The Irish Sea

The transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic in Britain and Ireland remains one of the most debated and contested transitions of prehistory. Much more complex than a simple transition from hunting and gathering to farming, the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in Britain has been discussed not only as an economic and technological transformation, but also as an ideological one. In western Britain in particular, with its wealth of Neolithic monuments, considerable emphasis has been placed on the role of monumentality in the transition process. Over the past decade the author‧s research has concentrated on the early Neolithic monumental traditions of western Britain, a deliberate focus on areas outside the more ‘luminous’ centres of Wessex, the Cotswold–Severn region, and Orkney. This chapter discusses the transition in western Britain, with an emphasis on the monuments of this region. In particular, it discusses the areas around the Irish Sea – west Wales, the Isle of Man, south-west and western Scotland – as well as referring to the sequence on the other side of the Irish Sea, specifically eastern Ireland.

Conferences in British Nineteenth-Century Coastal Shipping

2009 ◽  
pp. 77-90
Author(s):  
John Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Shipping Industry ◽  
Common Features ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Coastal Shipping ◽  
Regulate Competition ◽  
Large Spread ◽  
The Common

This chapter examines a substantial number of British shipping conferences in the nineteenth century in order to determine their ability to regulate competition across the shipping trade. It identifies and analyses the common features of shipping conferences; the presence of conferences outside of Britain - particularly in China; the early shipping conferences, including the Glasgow-Liverpool conference; and the evidence of large-spread conferences across the United Kingdom. It discovers that coastal shipping was as involved in shipping conferences as the rest of the shipping industry, and that collaboration between firms existed even within the heightened competitive atmosphere.

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