Transport industries Books

Book SynopsisDespite the ongoing effects of climate change, large swaths of transport vehicles are still being powered with fossil fuels, generating enormous amounts of greenhouse gas emissions. Changing our transport technology is crucial to ensure a transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy, with green electricity acting as the major transmission medium. With the development of innovative storage and propulsion, combined with real-time energy management, significant changes are feasible in the ship, automotive, and aeronautics sectors.This book provides a thorough look at the current trend of electrification of transportation systems on land and at sea.The first chapters cover electric land transport, its related energy storage, and regulatory issues. Ensuing chapters look at electric ships, their challenges and charging solutions, and the relevant regulations. The technologies, challenges, and possibilities associated with greenhouse gas emission reduction, by shifting from conventional to zero-emission electrical transportation, are examined in detail, with case studies demonstrating real world solutions.This is a rich resource for senior undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, designers, operators, manufacturers, and engineers, interested in the latest electrification trends in land and sea.

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Book SynopsisThe Making of the African Road offers an account of the long-distance road in Africa. Being a latecomer to automobility and far from saturated mass mobility, the African road continues to be open for diverging interpretations and creative appropriations. The road regime on the continent is thus still under construction, and it is made in more than one sense: physically, socially, politically, morally and cosmologically. The contributions to this volume provide first-hand anthropological insights into the infrastructural, economic, historical as well as experiential dimensions of the emerging orders of the African road. Contributors are: Kurt Beck, Amiel Bize, Michael Bürge, Luca Ciabarri, Gabriel Klaeger, Mark Lamont, Tilman Musch, Michael Stasik, Rami Wadelnour.Trade Review'Si des études éparses avaient déjà porté sur les routes en tant que constructions physiques autant que sociales, aucune entreprise n’avait jusqu’ici tenté de produire un propos plus systématique sur cet objet en Afrique [...] Plusieurs contributions du recueil peuvent être lues comme des descriptions extrêmement fines de pratiques et de représentations constitutives des cultures professionnelles des métiers de la route'. - Sidy Cissokho, Centre d’études africaines de l’Université d’Édimbourg (CAS), dans: Politique africaine n° 147 (Octobre 2017), p.159-170 'The making of the African road offers superb local and comparative insights, decisively placing African roads into the global history and ethnography of modernity. The volume should be of interest well beyond Africanist circles, to all social scientists and experts interested in matters of road infrastructure.' - Florin Faje, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania, in: Social Anthropology 26.4 (2018), pp. 577-578 'The chapters contribute rich ethnographic descriptions that highlight the diversity of roads in contemporary Africa, ranging from congested urban thoroughfares to desert roads composed of little more than tracks across the sand. […] the authors engage most directly with scholarship on Western mobility, the anthropology of roads, and science and technology studies, making the book particularly relevant to scholars interested in how technology and culture shape each other.' - Rosa E. Ficek, University of Puerto Rico, in: Transfers 8.3 (2018), pp. 135-136Table of ContentsList of figures List of maps List of contributors Acknowledgments 1 An Introduction to the African Road Kurt Beck, Gabriel Klaeger and Michael Stasik 2 Roadside Involution, Or How Many People Do You Need to Run a Lorry Park? Michael Stasik 3 Jam-Space and Jam-Time: Traffic in Nairobi Amiel Bize 4 Stories of the Road: Perceptions of Power, Progress and Perils on the Accra-Kumasi road, Ghana Gabriel Klaeger 5 Biographies of Roads, Biographies of Nations: History, Territory and the Road Effect in Post-Conflict Somaliland Luca Ciabarri 6 Cosmological Work at the Crossroads: Commercial Motorbike Riders in Makeni, Sierra Leone Michael Bürge 7 Ruin, Or Repair? Infrastructural Sociality and an Economy of Disappearances along a Rural Road in Kenya Mark Lamont 8 Negotiating Desert Routes: Travelling Practices on the Forty Days Road Rami Wadelnour 9 Teda Drivers on the Road between Agadez and Assheggur: Taking over an Ancient Tuereg Caravan Route Tilman Musch 10 Technological Dramas on the Road: The ‘Artery of the North Highway’ in the Sudan Kurt Beck Index  

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Book SynopsisSnow in the Tropics by Thomas Taro Lennerfors and Peter Birch offers the first comprehensive history of the independent reefer operators. These shipping companies, such as Lauritzen, Salén, Seatrade, Star Reefers, and NYK Reefer, developed the dedicated transport of refrigerated products like meat, fish, and fruit by ship, from the early 20th century to the present. Snow in the Tropics describes how the history of the reefer operators has been formed in relation to shippers, such as Dole and Chiquita, in a constant struggle with the liner companies, such as Maersk, and in relation to global economic and political trends. It also covers how the industry is discursively constructed and the psychological drivers of the business decisions in it.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Respondents Part 1: Introduction 1 Tropics in the Snow: an Introduction  1 The Cold Chain  2 Maritime Reefer Shipping  3 Aim, Preliminary Research Question, and Potential Contributions  4 Independent Reefer Operators and Their Customers and Suppliers  5 Implications of the Industrial Landscape for the Study of Strategy  6 Three Theoretical Dimensions of Business Activity  7 The Structure of the Book 2 The Reefer Industry in a Historical Context  1 The Beginnings: Meat, Bananas and Fish  2 1920s, 1930s, and into the 1940s  3 The 1950s and 1960s  4 The 1970s and 1980s  5 1990s to the Present  6 Summary Part 2: The Independent Reefer Operators 3 Salénrederierna  1 A Fruitful Relationship  2 The Transatlantic Trade  3 The Route to Global Leadership  4 Salén Reefer Services on the Top of the World  5 A Market Downturn and Some New Players on the Reefer Scene  6 Palletisation and Maximal Flexibility  7 Summary 4 Cool Carriers  1 Perfresh  2 Bilspedition as Owner: Ship Investments and the Golden 90s that Never Came  3 Höegh and the Others: Broadened Market Presence with Limited Investments  4 Summary 5 J. Lauritzen  1 Mediterranean Adventures  2 Worldwide Growth  3 Rebuilding the Fleet after the Second World War  4 Lauritzen Peninsular Reefers 1970-1983: the Shark’s Teeth  5 From Beautiful to Economical Ships: the Entry of the ULRCs  6 The Family Class and the Weak 1990s  7 LauritzenCool: Two Market Leaders Become One  8 Armada’s New Reefer Venture  9 Summary 6 Seatrade  1 The Management Buy-Out  2 Argentina and the Atlantic Fish Trade  3 The Newbuilding Programme  4 The Seatrade Pool  5 Dammers & Van der Heide  6 Integrating Dammers into Seatrade  7 Internationalizing the Operations  8 In the Turbulent Market of the New Millennium  9 New Partnerships: GreenSea Chartering and Joint Ventures  10 Newbuildings and Reefer-Containerships  11 Green Reefers  12 Summary 7 Japanese Specialized Reefer Companies  1 Japanese Fisheries  2 The Japanese Shipping Companies: NYK and the Others  3 Summary 8 From Blue Star Line to Star Reefers  1 Entry into Specialized Reefers  2 Swan Reefer  3 Star Reefers  4 Summary 9 Laskaridis and the Hamburg Reefer Cluster  1 Hamburg Sud and the Hamburg Reefer Cluster  2 Summary Part 3: Container Lines and Shippers 10 The Traditional Liner Companies and the Container Lines  1 Maersk  2 Summary 11 Fruit Companies and Marketing Boards  1 Chiquita  2 Dole  3 Del Monte  4 Marketing Boards  5 Summary Part 4: Analysis and Conclusions 12 The Independent Reefer Operators from Material, Discursive, and Subjective Perspectives  1 1950s: the Wild Reefers  2 1960s: Rationalizations and Explosive Growth  3 1970s: the Others  4 1980s: Striving for Efficiency  5 1990s: We are Conventional!  6 2000s: Decline and Consolidations 13 Snow in the Tropics: Conclusions  1 The Material Dimension  2 The Discursive Dimension  3 The Subjective Dimension Bibliography Index

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