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Key focus: container
Tension between mobility and fixity
Containers
20 feet or 40 feet long : standard size for easy movement standard size ensures that containers are “intermodal” switch them among ship, road.
Move via shipping, rail, and road networks
Bulit
Over 8000 container ships
12.5 million TEUs (20 foot equivalent units)
Annual global trade estimated at 150 million TEUs
“Invented” in 1956
The largest container ships
1995-1998 4,000 to 8000 TEUs
2003- 2006 8000 to 12,000 TEUs
2013 18,000 TEUs
Emma Maersk
Built in Denmark
Capacity of 11000 TEU
“Post- Panama” vessel
Crew of 13
Dubbed “SS Santa” in December 2006 for hauling goods from China to US
Voyage of the “ SS Santa”
Left the port of Shenzhen china
Export 30000 containers per day
Global nature of trade
Scale of the global economy
An uneven ‘global’ economy
26% of all containers start
01-23-14 Thur.
World’s busiest container ports?
1. Shanghai , China
2. Singapore
3. Hong Kong
4. Shenzhen, China
5. Busan, South Korea
6. Ningbo, china
7. Guangzhou, china
8. Qingdao,china
9. Dubai, united Arab emirates
10. Rotterdam, Netherlands
17. Los angeles
Container industry
China international marine containers group limited (CIMC)
12 factories on China
40000 employees
CIMC builds about 40% of the worlds
CIMC
40,000 employees
Mainly migrants from rural provinces
Wages are significantly less than their North American equivalents
Inequalities at a range of different geographic scales
National –within china
Global – china VS north America
The US container industry
Vanguard National Trailer Corporation
Establish operations in Moron, Indiana in 2003
Fastest growing trailer manufacturer in North America
Wholly owner by CIMC (China International Marine Containers Group Limited)
CIMC
Transnational firm (TNC)
Firm owing and controlling assets in more than one country
Foreign direct investment
Key focus: container
Tension between mobility and fixity
Containers
20 feet or 40 feet long : standard size for easy movement standard size ensures that containers are “intermodal” switch them among ship, road.
Move via shipping, rail, and road networks
Bulit
Over 8000 container ships
12.5 million TEUs (20 foot equivalent units)
Annual global trade estimated at 150 million TEUs
“Invented” in 1956
The largest container ships
1995-1998 4,000 to 8000 TEUs
2003- 2006 8000 to 12,000 TEUs
2013 18,000 TEUs
Emma Maersk
Built in Denmark
Capacity of 11000 TEU
“Post- Panama” vessel
Crew of 13
Dubbed “SS Santa” in December 2006 for hauling goods from China to US
Voyage of the “ SS Santa”
Left the port of Shenzhen china
Export 30000 containers per day
Global nature of trade
Scale of the global economy
An uneven ‘global’ economy
26% of all containers start
01-23-14 Thur.
World’s busiest container ports?
1. Shanghai , China
2. Singapore
3. Hong Kong
4. Shenzhen, China
5. Busan, South Korea
6. Ningbo, china
7. Guangzhou, china
8. Qingdao,china
9. Dubai, united Arab emirates
10. Rotterdam, Netherlands
17. Los angeles
Container industry
China international marine containers group limited (CIMC)
12 factories on China
40000 employees
CIMC builds about 40% of the worlds
CIMC
40,000 employees
Mainly migrants from rural provinces
Wages are significantly less than their North American equivalents
Inequalities at a range of different geographic scales
National –within china
Global – china VS north America
The US container industry
Vanguard National Trailer Corporation
Establish operations in Moron, Indiana in 2003
Fastest growing trailer manufacturer in North America
Wholly owner by CIMC (China International Marine Containers Group Limited)
CIMC
Transnational firm (TNC)
Firm owing and controlling assets in more than one country
Foreign direct investment