SEE: Globalisation: 3.1B
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- Created on: 08-03-22 17:19
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- 3.1B: Developments in trade and transport contributing to a shrinking world
- 19th century
- Railways
- Railways allow for transport of people and commodities
- Still important today e.g. HS2
- 1904 Trans-Siberian railway complete
- Connects Moscow with China and Japan
- Railways allow for transport of people and commodities
- Telegraph
- First put across the Atlantic in 1860s, making communication instantaneous
- Some countries are now 'leapfrogging' this tech
- Steam-ships
- Britain became the leading world power in the 1800s, using steam ships
- Steam ships and trains could move goods/people across trade routes into Asia and Africa
- Railways
- 20th century
- Jet-aircraft
- Expansion of international travel in late 1900s
- Case study: easyjet founded in 1995
- Recent expansion of the cheap flights sector has reduced price and time of flying
- Also allowed for trade of commodities e.g. perishable goods
- Expansion of international travel in late 1900s
- Containerisation
- Supersize containers allow for commodities to be traded globally
- More than 200 million ships every year, carrying 19,000 intermodal containers each
- Lower cost of transport beneficial to traders/consumers
- Jet-aircraft
- 19th century
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