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ScanDutch
Scotland
Scott, Norman
scramble. See shape-up
Sea Containers Ltd.
Seaforth docks
Sea-Land Service: business of; and containers; buys Econships; and Elizabeth terminal; expansion of in 1970s; and European service; and Felixstowe development; finances of; fleet of; and intracoastal service; and Japan service; and Litton Industries; Maersk ownership of; and military cargo; Newark base of; and Okinawa service; opened by Pan-Atlantic; Pan-Atlantic renamed as; and Philippine service; and Puerto Rico service; and railroads; and rates; and rebates; and R. J. Reynolds; and standardization; and SL-7s; bid of for U.S. lines; and U.S. ports; and Vietnam service
Seatrain Lines
Seattle, WA; and Alaska trade; and competition; and containerport development; as distribution center; and Vietnam War
Seattle Port Commission
security
Shanghai, China
shape-up
Sharpe Army Depot
Shenzhen, China
shipbuilding: by consortia; of Econships; by Evergreen; glut of; at Ingalls shipyard; Japanese subsidies for; in mid-1960s; by new companies; of second-generation containerships; U.S. subsidies for; after World War II
shippers
shippers’ councils
Shipping Act of 1984
shipping costs: before containerization; with early containers; under contracts; data about; decline in; deregulation and; flat rates and; intermodal; and market concentration; in 1950s; in 1960s; in 1970s; in 1980s-1990s; in poor countries; rate wars; theoretic assumptions about; time and. See also conferences; nonconference carriers
Singapore; and port development; and traffic growth
Skagit Steel & Iron Works
Smathers, George
smuggling
South Africa
South African Marine
Southampton
Southern Railway
Soviet Union
Spain
spreader bars
standardization: benefits of; of container construction; of container dimensions; of container systems; of corner fittings; and performance; of railway gauge
Staten Island, NY
States Marine Lines
steamship
steel
stevedoring companies: in Great Britain; and port ownership; in United States
Straits of Malacca
Strick Trailers
strikes. See also International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union; International Longshoremen’s Association; Transport and General Workers Union
Subie Bay, Philippines
Suez Canal
sugar
supply chains
Surrey Docks, London
Switzerland
Sydney, Australia
T-2 tanker ships
Tacoma, WA
Taichung, Taiwan
Taiwan
Tampa FL
Tanjung Pelepas, Malaysia
Tantlinger, Keith: inventions of; and McLean Industries; role of in standardization
tariffs
Teamsters Union
technological change
telegraph
TEU (20-foot equivalent unit)
Thailand
Thames River
Thatcher, Margaret
Tilbury, England
Tobin, Austin
Tokyo
Toyota Motor Co.
Tozzoli, Guy E.
trade, international: in containers; in intermediate goods; magnitude of; in nineteenth century; pattern of; shipping costs as barrier to; time as barrier to
Trailer Train Company
Trailmobile Corp.
tramp ships
transit warehouses
Transport and General Workers Union
Transportation Act of 1958
Trans World Airlines
TRIO
Trotter, Eddie
trucking: and containers; before containers; and container standards; deregulation of in United States; development of; and market share; and piggyback services
trucks: design of; engines of; and trailers
Tung, C. Y.
United Arab Emirates
United Auto Workers
United Cargo Corporation
United Mine Workers
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
United Shipping Company
United States
United States, economy of
United States Air Force
United States Army: and early use of containers; First Logistical Command; Materiel Command; in Vietnam
United States Coast Guard
United States Congress
United States Department of Defense; Joint Logistics Review Board
United States Department of Labor
United States Federal Maritime Board
United States Federal Maritime Commission
United States Freight Company
United States Joint Chiefs of Staff
United States Lines: bankruptcy of; finances of; McLean and; and new pier in New York; and round-the-world service; sale of to Kidde; and Sea-Land bid; and takeover of