THE DEVELOPMENT OF MARINE AND RIVER SHIPBUILDING AND NAVIGATION IN AUSTRIA IN THE SECOND HALF OF XIX – EARLY XX CENTURIES

Abstract

The article discusses the conditions affecting the development of shipping and shipbuilding, analyses the radical changes in the structure of the merchant fleet of Austria: the impact of the steamship fleet, the ratio of the sea and the river navigation, the role of the state in this sector of the economy.

Keywords

• shipbuilding
• sailing ships
• steam ship
• merchant fleet
• shipbuilding trading company
• commercial port