Problem of high labor costs due to insufficient mechanization and automation; labor presently accounts for 48 to 60% of total transportation costs, and 60 to 75% of cost of transporting cargo by sea is accounted for while ship is at dock; unitized cargo-handling systems and their advantages to customer and shipowner are summarized; cost and time of handling cargo in break-bulk and unitized system are projected. (see also abstract in Mar Eng v 65 n 13 Dec 1960 p 63-7, 85)
Competitive general cargo ships, D.C.Macmillan
Soc Naval Architects Mar Engrs -- Paper
Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers -- Meeting ; 1960
1960
31 pages
Conference paper
English
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