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Nach der Pfeife des Handels tanzen – die britische Seetransportindustrie von 1850 bis 1990

This article examines the development of Britain’s sea transport industries, c.1850-1990. It identifies the interaction of seaborne trade and sea transport as the key driver of the changes and continuities that marked the evolution of the country’s shipping, shipbuilding and port interests. Whereas the relationship between trade and transport was symbiotic until 1913, it became increasingly disarticulated over the next 60 years and largely dysfunctional from the 1970s as British shipping and shipbuilding experienced relative, then absolute contraction, while the port industry was transformed by a combination of state intervention and technological change driven by foreign shipowners and shipbuilders.