Subscribe to RSS feedMeasuring the impact of supersized ships
by
Jerry Frank
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last modified
Jun 05, 2009 03:16 PM
The rapid growth in the scale and power of tonnage has fired up the imagination of French shipping but the economies of scale offered by such behemoths are counter-weighed by the additional risks posed by larger hulls and cargoes.
CONCORD, the Train Grande Vitesse and, perhaps, Nicholas Sarkozy’s €35bn (US$48bn) vision for a Greater Paris: France and the French love a grand project.
And now French shipping would seem to have one all of its own. Gigantism,...
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