Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part two. The field of transportation

Collection:: Economics Books

Fig. 135. Ships in the harbor of Naples. In the background is Mt. Vesuvius. CHAPTER FIFTEEN THE USE OF SHIPS Not many decades ago, wooden sailing vessels carried the whole of the world’s commerce on the high seas, but now steel steamships carry the greater part of it. In almost every large harbor a few sailing ves- sels may indeed be seen ; they are still extensively used to carry heavy, bulky goods, such as jute from Calcutta, grain and lumber from the west coast of North America, and nitrate of soda from Chile. But many of the sailing vessels now built have auxiliary steam power to take them through calms and into harbors. Only in small harbors or for the purposes of purely local trade is the wooden vessel still the prin- cipal carrier. OCEAN TRAFFIC No civilized country produces a sufficient variety of goods to satisfy all its own needs; every such country must draw upon other parts of the earth. Since three fourths of the earth’s surface is water and the other fourth consists of detached land masses, the commodities from distant lands generally have to cross the water. If there is a choice between a land and a water route, the water route is generally chosen, because it is cheaper. How ocean liners differ from tramp steamers. Just as express trains and locals, fast freights and slow freights, all run on the same 189

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