Steel that earns a day rate; shipping has a real literature, aircraft leasing has essentially one textbook and no narrative history.
How the shipping container cut freight costs and remade global trade.
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The economics of shipping: the market cycle, freight rates and vessel costs.
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Lease structures, residual values and tax treatment of equipment leasing.
Flags of convenience and the legal nowhere that ships are owned in.
Aboard a Maersk box ship; the economics of the trade Denmark dominates.
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Novel, but the standard introduction to how ship finance actually works.
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The only book-length treatment of aircraft leasing; a textbook.
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