THE BIG ROUGH SEA - WORLD PORTS AND GLOBALIZATION / PORTS MONDIAUX ET MONDIALISATION
De grote wilde vaart - Wereldhavens en globalisering
Text on the back of the book (published by WBOOKS) / Texte au dos du livre :
Shipping, ports and trade are essential to humanity. Oceans, seas and rivers cover more than two-thirds of the Earth's surface. Since ancient times, people transported their goods across the water in rafts, canoes and sailboats. Now they sail across the oceans with container ships, bulk carriers and tankers. 90 percent of world trade moves from port to port by ship. Ports are the hubs of world society.
But ports and world trade are easily disrupted: a shipping accident in the Suez Canal, the corona pandemic, wars, climate change, geopolitical tensions. What happens in world ports? How did they originate? How have they developed? How did China's ports expand so dramatically? Can ports continue to grow indefinitely, or not? What are they doing about climate change and energy transition? What will the maritime world look like in the future?
These are questions that Aafke Steenhuis and Jan Joost Teunissen asked themselves. Over the past ten years they have traveled to crucial and colorful ports in the world, such as Shanghai, Singapore, Mumbai, Dubai, Alexandria, Cape Town, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Marseille, Genoa, Los Angeles, Santos. During that trip around the world they spoke with port experts, economists, writers and sociologists. The result is a book that is as loving as it is critical.
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