An assessment of maritime trade and technology

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Maritime industry
  • International trade
  • Ocean shipping
  • Policy, legislation and regulation
  • Transportation policy
  • Federal government
  • Analysis
  • Marine technology
  • Maritime cargo policies
  • Maritime policies
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• Publication/ Report Number:
  OTA-O-220
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1402928
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• TRIS Online Accession Number:
  00647180
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
• 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
• 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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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/12675/dot_12675_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.41 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:098fa6c1578c1a08958a47a1641230f4084e396ce5ec49e14296ae1ff40211e2