Summary - TST 13

TRANSPORTES, SERVICIOS Y TELECOMUNICACIONES


TST 13

José Ramón García López
La marina mercante asturiana, 1849-1900


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Key words: Shipbuilding; merchant navy; transition from sailing to steam navigation.

[ Abstract ]

During the period this article deals with, there were many important changes in commercial navigation, not only in Asturias but also in many other regions. The period began in Asturias with the big growth of both wooden and sailing shipbuilding. This growth went on until the beginning of the 1860s, being then displaced by the new steam propulsion system. The technical change caused bigger investments and consequently new management and financing schemes; furthermore, a specialization of commercial navigation as a specific branch of commerce was developed. In this work both ways of navigation – sailing and steam – are analysed and also the transition process. First of all, the importance of regional shipbuilding is to be stuck out in the sailing period. Secondly, dealing with the steam system a research is made on the companies, their structural bodies and their evolution.