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Norway's Interwar Tanker Expansion – A Reappraisal

Year: 2007

Type: article

Abstract: The topic of the article is the Norwegian expansion within oil tanker shipping in the interwar period, which is analysed on the basis of new empirical evidence. By means of a purpose-built database, the basis for the expansion is analysed and traditional accounts of the growth of Norwegian tanker shipping are challenged and modified. Previously, the purchase of second-hand tankers from Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co. has been seen as the most important basis for the growth of Norwegian tanker shipping. This article claims that the Anglo-Saxon tankers were relatively unimportant. The dynamic relationship between Oslo-based shipowners, primarily companies without previous experience of the tanker industry, and foreign, in particular Swedish, yards is the key to understanding the development.

Source: Scandinavian Economic History Review

DOI: 10.1080/03585520701768719

Author: Stig Tenold

Institution: Norwegian School of Economics

Language: English

Topic: Historical Economic and Social Studies

Subfield: Economics and Econometrics

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1979305726

FWCI: 1.511

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Cited by: 6

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