| A Guide to Merchant Shipping and Transport, Including Its Background, Professions, Types of Ships, and Related Infrastructure Contributor(s): Torrin, Ken (Author) |
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ISBN: 1276224664 ISBN-13: 9781276224666 Publisher: Webster's Digital Services OUR PRICE: $24.98 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2012 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Transportation |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 7.44" W x 9.69" (1.07 lbs) 270 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Learn more about shipping transport and merchant shipping and their historic significance to global commerce and trade. Understand key concepts in commercial shipping and the general transportation of goods, raw materials, and people from one port to the next. Discover the details of the professions in merchant shipping and the duties and responsibilities of each function covering the deck, engineering and steward's department. Also differentiate between the types of ships and their uses in commercial shipping lanes all over the world. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. |