An assessment of maritime trade and technology

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Analysis Federal Government International Trade Marine Technology Maritime Cargo Policies Maritime Industry Maritime Policies Maritime Technology Ocean Shipping Policy, Legislation And Regulation Seaborne Trade Transportation Policy U.S. Maritime Industries U.S. Shipbuilding Industry

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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.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:098fa6c1578c1a08958a47a1641230f4084e396ce5ec49e14296ae1ff40211e2
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/12675/dot_12675_DS1.pdf
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