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"World Merchant Fleet 2001–2005" (PDF). United States Maritime Administration. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 21, 2007; Thompson, Mark L. (1994). Queen of the Lakes. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-2393-6. United Nations Council on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2005). Review of Maritime Transport, 2005. New York and ...
The Merchant Marine Act of 1920 – Is a United States federal law or statute established to protect all maritime workers including those from shipping companies, off shore oil rigging companies, fisherman and essentially anyone employed in the maritime industry. The act laid foundation for the industry and established important rules and ...
2022 – A study estimates the air pollution impacts on climate change and the ozone layer from rocket launches and re-entry of reusable components and debris in 2019 and from a theoretical future space industry extrapolated from the "billionaire space race".
1957: Aircraft supplants shipping as the leading mode of passenger Transatlantic travel; 1959: The USS Skate (SSN-578) surfaces at the North Pole. The SR.N1, the first practical hovercraft, is launched. 1960: The Trieste descends to the Challenger Deep.
Major ports in the Northeast began to specialize in merchant shipping. The main cargoes included tobacco, as well as rice, indigo and naval stores from the Southern colonies. From the other colonies exports included horses, wheat, fish and lumber. By the 1760s New England was the center of a flourishing shipbuilding industry.
Magic and Gracie off Castle Garden, painted by James E. Buttersworth, c. 1871. Maritime history is the study of human interaction with and activity at sea. It covers a broad thematic element of history that often uses a global approach, although national and regional histories remain predominant.
The first war that an organized United States Merchant Marine took part in was the American Revolutionary War, which lasted from 1775 to 1783.The first merchant marine action in the war took place on June 12, 1775, when a group of Machias, Maine citizens, after hearing the news of what happened in Concord and Lexington, boarded and captured the schooner British warship HMS Margaretta.
The effects of containerization rapidly spread beyond the shipping industry. Containers were quickly adopted by trucking and rail transport industries for cargo transport not involving sea transport. Manufacturing also evolved to adapt to take advantage of containers.