TY  - BOOK
AU  - GANTER Mary
TI  - Australian coastal shipping: the vital link 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Canberra
PB  - RAN Maritime Studies Program
KW  - AUSTRALIA
KW  - MERCHANT SHIPPING
N2  - 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
ER  -