Transportindustri

Under nästan fyra decennier var Leif Östling verksam på buss- och lastbilsföretaget Scania. Mot bakgrund av såväl historiskt monumentala skiften som tekniska språng och konjunkturers svallvågor, utvecklades den person som för många idag är välkänd...

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"Otaliga gånger har nyfikna själar ställt mig frågan om hur jag blivit den jag är. Vad är det som har drivit mig? Hur har jag tagit mig dit jag kommit? Mitt svar har varit: livet utvecklar sig, oförutsägbart och mångtydigt. Livet faktiskt bar...

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When restless New York City hedge fund manager Robert Fairchild watches the Baltic Dry Cargo Index plunge 97%, registering an all-time high and a 25-year low within the span of just six months, he decides to buy a ship. Immediately fantasizing abo...

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Like a modern-day Jane Jacobs, Janette Sadik-Khan transformed New York City's streets to make room for pedestrians, bikers, buses, and green spaces. Describing the battles she fought to enact change, Streetfight imparts wisdom and practical advice...

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Ever since man first took to the air, combat aircraft have been at the cutting edge of aviation technology, resulting in some of the greatest and most complex designs ever built. Military Aircraft features 52 of the most important military aircraf...

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Whether you're negotiating with an angry boss or a difficult colleague - or, indeed, a stubborn teenager - you can learn to use your emotions to help you achieve the result you want. Building Agreement shows you how to control the five '...

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This classic history of America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies is "a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real" (New York Times Book Review). From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, Skunk Works is...

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I Estonia sprängdes! presenteras alla de förkrossande forskardokumenten., Text helt byggd på de officiella dykarinspelningarna, visar det oförklarade orangegula paketet, det krysstejpade paketet, det uppfläkta "kronblads"-hålet. ".....

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In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the drama...

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Maritime Transport and Regional Sustainability is a critical examination on how the maritime transport sector helps regions to achieve their sustainability goals, especially focusing on the challenges posed by climate change. This book analyzes ma...

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Combining a ship finance textbook with a jet setting geopolitical romp, Viking Raid picks up where The Shipping Man left off on a journey into the famously private world of international shipping tycoons and their financiers. At the conclusion of ...

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When ESG concerns cause Reeperbahn Landesbank to sell his $750 million credit facility to “Loan-Own-Capital,” a New York distressed fund, Norwegian shipping magnate Coco Jacobsen is forced to make a tough decision: put in another $100 ...

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The Impact of Soviet Shipping (1987) is a detailed analysis of the operations and impact of Soviet shipping. Using new data sources and drawing on discussions with Soviet shipping managers, the book provides a valuable insight into the workings of...

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Global Airlines: Competition in a Transnational Industry presents an overview of the changing scene in air transport covering current issues such as security, no frills airlines, 'open skies' agreements, the outcome of the recent downturn in econo...

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All decades of aviation have important developments and changes. In the 2000s, the European Airbus consortium finally overtook Boeing as the major producer of airliners, with a full range from the smallest, the A318, to the largest of all passenge...

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The London Midland & Scottish Railway was the largest of the Big Four railway companies to emerge from the 1923 grouping. It was the only one to operate in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as having two short stretches of...

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Transport Justice develops a new paradigm for transportation planning based on principles of justice. Author Karel Martens starts from the observation that for the last fifty years the focus of transportation planning and policy has been on the pe...

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MODELLING TRANSPORT Comprehensive Textbook Resource for Understanding Transport Modelling Modelling Transport provides unrivalled depth and breadth of coverage on the topic of transport modelling. Each topic is approached as a modelling exercise w...

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By the New York Timess Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey to understand the worldwide supply chainexposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that bring products to your doorstep, and the ruthle...

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During the post-war years, Heathrow Airport became the countrys leading aviation hub. This book examines how this was achieved, from the airports opening on 1 January 1946 until the transfer of long-haul services to the Central Area in the late 19...

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Designed and manufactured by the men who would make Concorde, the Rolls-Royce powered Vickers VC10, and its larger variant, the Super VC10, represented the ultimate in 1960s subsonic airliners. The VC10 was Britain's answer to the Boeing 707 and t...

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Since the Titanic disaster of 1912, the horrors of major maritime casualties have prompted international conventions and domestic legislation, but the link between events and outcomes (which are often separated by many years) is rarely understood ...

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Character is Destiny provides a rare and unique glimpse into Pehr Gyllenhammars professional triumphs and failures; and his successful efforts to shape industry in Europe, most notably with his creation of the European Roundtable of Industrialists...

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The key to rising to the top of your company lies in a simple message and philosophy. The ultimate inspirational story for ambitious innovators, market-disruptors, and global business entrepreneurs. Celebrating DHLs fiftieth anniversary as a world...

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English for Cabin Crew is an essential course for those preparing for a career as a cabin crew member. It is equally suitable for those already working in the industry who need to improve their communication skills when carrying out their pre and ...

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Situations and systems are easier to change than the human condition - particularly when people are well-trained and well-motivated, as they usually are in maintenance organisations. This is a down-to-earth practitioners guide to managing maintena...

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No other classic car has the mystique and romance of the Corvette. It became legendary almost as soon as it was released in 1953. In 1997, the fifth generation of Corvette hit the streets and in ALL CORVETTES ARE RED, James Schefter tells the fasc...

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The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering--in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day. Imp...

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Global disruption, new technologies and changing consumer habits are causing turmoil in the supply chain industry. This book shows businesses how to remain resilient in this dynamic new environment.The supply chain crisis of 2021 exposed the neces...

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From the award-winning chief White House correspondent for "U.S. News & World Report" comes the definitive history of "Air Force One." 16-page photo insert. (Transportation)

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