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Piracy and Counter-piracy
There is a kind of romance around piracy. It is the romance of anti-authority figures and of a life lived not just in the margins but outside the boundaries. Just think about the masses of novels and films about piracy … Continue reading
Posted in finance and insurance, logistics, piracy, political economy, ports, readings, shipping conditions, ships, transport
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Interconnections
Dead Water by Simon Ings is the most fabulously dystopian novel about shipping, containers, ships, airships, tsunami, shipping, and dastardly deed that can happen when vast numbers of ships are circumnavigating the globes with vast numbers of containers on board. One … Continue reading
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Tagged Simon Ings
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