GANTER Mary <br/><br/>
Australian coastal shipping :  the vital link / 
Mary Ganter 
 - Canberra :  RAN Maritime Studies Program,  c1998. 
 - x, 65 p. 
 - Papers in Australian maritime affairs.  No.3 .
<br/><br/> Study of the scale and nature of goods transported by sea around Australia as domestic trade. Notes that during the twentieth century coastal shipping was replaced by land based alternatives except for those products that because of their nature or quantity cannot feasibly be handled any other way. Implications of this decline for defence are considered. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>AUSTRALIA--COASTAL SHIPPING
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>AUSTRALIA--MERCHANT SHIPPING