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An assessment of maritime trade and technology
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1983-10-01
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TRIS Online Accession Number:00647180
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NTL Classification:NTL-MARINE/WATERWAYS TRANSPORTATION-MARINE/WATERWAYS TRANSPORTATION;NTL-MARINE/WATERWAYS TRANSPORTATION-Marine Economics and Finance;NTL-MARINE/WATERWAYS TRANSPORTATION-Marine Planning and Policy;NTL-FREIGHT-Freight Economics and Finance;NTL-FREIGHT-Freight Planning and Policy;NTL-ECONOMICS AND FINANCE-Economic Impacts;NTL-LAWS AND REGULATIONS-Federal Laws;
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Abstract:Because of concerns about the viability and productivity of U.S. maritime
industries as well as the future U.S. position in world trade, Congress
requested Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) to prepare this assessment.
Congress asked OTA to undertake an analysis and forecast of longterm trends in
global seaborne trade and maritime technology in relation to the U.S. maritime
industry. This assessment of Maritime Trade and Technology traces prevailing
conditions and dominant trends that are important to the way the Federal
Government assumes its responsibility for developing and implementing policy.
The report contains analyses of the world outlook for trade, shipping, and
shipbuilding. It identifies the extent of U. S. participation in these
enterprises. It analyses the U.S. shipping and shipbuilding industries and
identifies certain weak and strong attributes. It discusses trends in technology
as well as in the policies of the United States and of our major trading
partners. OTA has found that, although there are both healthy and troubled
segments of the U.S. maritime industries, all sectors are becoming increasingly
dependent on Federal policy decisions. And, with increasing competition in world
trade as well as shipping services to carry that trade, intervention by all
governments is more and more prevalent. OTA received valuable assistance in
the preparation of this assessment from its advisory panel, which represented
a cross section of U, S. maritime industry, labor, and user interests. The panel
provided critiques and advice throughout the assessment and particularly during
a detailed review of this final report. Other contributors to the assessment
were contractors and individual consultants who provided valuable analyses of
specific topics that were integrated into the overall report. The link in this
record leads to a Table of Contents for this document in hypertext that will
allow the user to view in .pdf format the entire volume (231p., 4562K) or
selected chapters.
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