The Role of Coastal Shipping in UK Transport: An Estimate of Comparative Traffic Movements in 1910

Armstrong, John

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“…The North European ports get a higher weight and the long distance routes get a lower weight in the earnings column, in particular South America. The latter observation reflects 8 The information on the volume of British coastal trade is from Armstrong (1987Armstrong ( , 1998. 9 Some of the major contributions to this literature include Hobson (1914), Isserlis (1938), North (1968), Harley (1988), Harley (1989) and Mohammed and Williamson (2003).…”

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Shipping in Dire Straits: New Evidence on Trends and Cycles in Coal Freights from Britain, 1919-1939

Klovland

2016

SSRN Journal

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New monthly freight rate indices for 13 coal trade routes from Britain 1919-1939 are presented. The new indices form the basis of a review of the interwar freight markets and their relationship to the timing and severity of general business cycles. New time series of laid-up tonnage provide the background for this discussion. The Great Depression starting in the autumn of 1929 created a shipping cycle of unusual length and severity. Real freight rate indices used as a cross-check on productivity gains in shipping raise some doubt on previous estimates of productivity growth in British shipping in the interwar years.JEL Classification: N74,N14,D24 * I am grateful to Bob Castelein for providing me with the Fairplay dataset. Helpful discussions on econometric methods with Erik Ø. Sørensen and on shipping economics with Stig Tenold are gratefully acknowledged.

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Shipping in Dire Straits: New Evidence on Trends and Cycles in Coal Freights from Britain, 1919-1939

Klovland

2016

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“…8 8 The major source of shipping statistics from 1841 is the annual Returns of trade and navigation in the British Parliamentary papers. For a sample of work on UK coastal shipping, see Armstrong, ‘Role of coastal shipping’. …”

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Shipping and economic development in nineteenth‐century Ireland¹

Solar

2006

The Economic History Review

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The tonnage of shipping entering and leaving Ireland grew rapidly from the late eighteenth century until the mid‐1870s, after which there was a distinct slowdown. The mid‐nineteenth century was notable for a five‐fold increase in shipping per capita, an indicator of the Irish economy’s increasing commercialization. The slowdown after 1870 would have been even greater without the industrial dynamism of Belfast, Ireland’s leading port from the 1880s. The early and rapid introduction of steamships from the 1820s made possible large‐scale exports of live animals and fresh eggs, products that would account for 60 per cent of agricultural exports and a quarter of total exports by 1910.

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Total factor productivity growth on Britain’s railways, 1852–1912: A reappraisal of the evidence

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Mulatu

2007

Explorations in Economic History

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This paper revisits the issue of the productivity performance of preWorld War I Britain's railway system with an improved dataset and with modern time-series econometrics. We find a slowdown in TFP growth between 1850 and 1870, after which it stabilized at about 1.1%. An analysis of company-level productivity rejects the claims that there was a regulation-induced revival of productivity performance in the railway sector after 1900 but, on the other hand, it supports the claim that there was some managerial failure during the period.

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The Role of Coastal Shipping in UK Transport: An Estimate of Comparative Traffic Movements in 1910

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Shipping in Dire Straits: New Evidence on Trends and Cycles in Coal Freights from Britain, 1919-1939

Shipping in Dire Straits: New Evidence on Trends and Cycles in Coal Freights from Britain, 1919-1939

Shipping and economic development in nineteenth‐century Ireland¹

Total factor productivity growth on Britain’s railways, 1852–1912: A reappraisal of the evidence

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Shipping in Dire Straits: New Evidence on Trends and Cycles in Coal Freights from Britain, 1919-1939

Shipping in Dire Straits: New Evidence on Trends and Cycles in Coal Freights from Britain, 1919-1939

Shipping and economic development in nineteenth‐century Ireland1

Total factor productivity growth on Britain’s railways, 1852–1912: A reappraisal of the evidence

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