"Giants Of The Sea: Ships & Men Who Changed The World" covers the history and development of the modern cargo shipping industry in 330 pages spread across 30 discrete chapters. The history of cargo shipping going back to the Egyptians moving obelisks by barge on the Nile is covered, but the focus is on the post-war revolution in shipping cost efficiency through specialization and geometric increases in vessel size. With detailed information on what comprises each major shipping segment today, it also includes chapters on the nine men whose fingerprints are still all over the industry. Three Americans, two Danes, two Greeks and two Chinese. The modern worldwide cargo shipping industry stands on the shoulders of these giants. The author, who worked on a daily basis for twenty years with Malcom McLean, the inventor of container shipping, demonstrates the direct link between the efficiency of the shipping industry and the explosion in world trade it has enabled. The book outlines how today's shipping industry touches almost everyone on the planet in ways that they may not even be aware. In addition to highlighting the industry's contribution to the global economy, the book makes the case that it has been a prime catalyst in reducing poverty and even increasing peace around the world. Packed with interesting and fun facts in an 81/2" x 11" hardcover format, it is the author's hope that this broad sweep of a largely invisible industry is an informative and enjoyable read for people both inside and outside of shipping. Dr. Neil Baird "This is an excellent, important and very valuable book." Dr. Baird is Chairman of Baird Maritime, a leading maritime publishing house, and is generally consider the preeminent reviewer of maritime books in the world. (full published review at BOOK REVIEW
Giants of the Sea: Ships and Men Who Changed the World - Baird Maritime) Author Walter Curran "It should be on the required reading list of every maritime college and every transportation major in the nation." Mr. Curran, a maritime academy graduate who spent his career on the water, has written four maritime novels. Admiral James Stavridis "Your book is terrific - thanks again!" Admiral Stavridis, a retired four star admiral who was Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, has written several books appearing on best seller lists and reads 100 books per year according to Forbes article. Author Robert Frump: "I consider John one of our finest analysts of today's modern shipping scene -- including the current turmoil in worldwide logistics and supply. Here, he looks at the long game -- the impact of containerization." From published recommendation of book in The Frump Report. Mr. Frump is a nationally recognized journalist who won severl major awards while a journalist and investigative reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer. He is also the former managing editor of The Journal of Commerce. Historian Eric Wiberg: "This volume does admirably well to present a cogent presentation of where shipping has been going for the past 75 years, and those, particularly in the US in the last century, who helped to move it there. The text is highly informed, buttressed by solid, innovative and original research from source material. The analysis is based on extensive first-hand executive shipping and travel experience. The book is neither "sea stories" nor "data displays;" Gianst of the Seas is a well-cogitated, and surprisingly humanistic, descriptive and readable account." From full review to be published by the North American Society for Oceanic History in The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord, a quarterly journal of maritime history scholarship/ Along with the Canadian Nautical Research Society, NASOH has co-sponsored the printing of this leading academic journal since 1991. Mr. Wiberg has written over 25 maritime related nonfiction books and his research and writings include a particular focus on WWII and Caribbean history.. Shipping expert. Four decades of maritime experience including 15 years as CEO of US flag container shipping company I co-founded. Inventor with two patents. Harvard MBA.
Giants of the Sea: Ships and Men Who Changed the World - Baird Maritime) Author Walter Curran "It should be on the required reading list of every maritime college and every transportation major in the nation." Mr. Curran, a maritime academy graduate who spent his career on the water, has written four maritime novels. Admiral James Stavridis "Your book is terrific - thanks again!" Admiral Stavridis, a retired four star admiral who was Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, has written several books appearing on best seller lists and reads 100 books per year according to Forbes article. Author Robert Frump: "I consider John one of our finest analysts of today's modern shipping scene -- including the current turmoil in worldwide logistics and supply. Here, he looks at the long game -- the impact of containerization." From published recommendation of book in The Frump Report. Mr. Frump is a nationally recognized journalist who won severl major awards while a journalist and investigative reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer. He is also the former managing editor of The Journal of Commerce. Historian Eric Wiberg: "This volume does admirably well to present a cogent presentation of where shipping has been going for the past 75 years, and those, particularly in the US in the last century, who helped to move it there. The text is highly informed, buttressed by solid, innovative and original research from source material. The analysis is based on extensive first-hand executive shipping and travel experience. The book is neither "sea stories" nor "data displays;" Gianst of the Seas is a well-cogitated, and surprisingly humanistic, descriptive and readable account." From full review to be published by the North American Society for Oceanic History in The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord, a quarterly journal of maritime history scholarship/ Along with the Canadian Nautical Research Society, NASOH has co-sponsored the printing of this leading academic journal since 1991. Mr. Wiberg has written over 25 maritime related nonfiction books and his research and writings include a particular focus on WWII and Caribbean history.. Shipping expert. Four decades of maritime experience including 15 years as CEO of US flag container shipping company I co-founded. Inventor with two patents. Harvard MBA.