Word: containership
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...modern containership is a magnificent machine, a floating factory with a pleasant little village attached to it, which can be operated by a complement of 25 officers and crew. When one first approaches a freighter such as the M.V. Ingrid Oldendorff, its physicality is overwhelming. The poop deck, which houses the accommodations, common areas and the bridge, soars 51 meters from hull to antenna, the height of the Leaning Tower of Pisa; the length from bow to stern is two proverbial American football fields, including the end zones. Davien and I were the only noncrew passengers aboard (supernumeraries...
When it comes to flying high, few businessmen can measure up to Frans Swarttouw, 49, of The Netherlands. Having built Rotterdam's containership terminal into a key operation of the world's biggest and busiest deepwater port, Swarttouw took command three years ago of Holland's weak and floundering Fokker aircraft company and promptly set about developing a strategy to propel it into the front ranks of the world's airframe manufacturers...
...North Carolina in 1934 with a down payment of $30 for a secondhand pickup truck, McLean built a substantial trucking concern and made millions. With additional backing from Ludwig, whose National Bulk Carriers operates supertankers, McLean founded Sea-Land Service, Inc., which grew into the nation's foremost containership operation. In 1969 he sold Sea-Land to Reynolds Tobacco for about $500 million. Then through his solely owned McLean Securities Inc., he invested in a life insurance venture and real estate holdings through the South and Southwest, including Pinehurst, the 7,500-acre golf resort in North Carolina...
...Northern Railroad, he persuaded the presidents of six Japanese shipping companies - all of whom he knows - to use Seattle as their U.S. port. That move created 3,100 jobs, $50 million in annual direct benefits for the region and helped make Seattle one of the nation's leading containership ports. Watanabe was among the first to urge Dixy Lee Ray to run for Governor, and is chairman of her board of economic advisers...
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