Abstract

LOPEZ, Mario Justo. The Buenos Ayres Great Southern Railway and Buenos Ayres Pacific Railway merchant shipping fleets, 1890-1935. Travesía (San Miguel de Tucumán) [online]. 2021, vol.23, n.2, pp.25-59. ISSN 2314-2707.

Two of the main British owned railways in Argentina maintained ocean merchant ships at the beginning of the XXth Century. The purpose of this activity was to reduce the cost of the fuel used, as coal had to be transported from Great Britain. As long as the coal trade was subject to the laws of the market, the goal sought was achieved and it showed how the companies were autonomous enterprises whose strategy consisted of reducing costs, or increasing its income, without subordination to any other commercial interest.

Keywords : Railway; Argentina; Great Britain; Shipping fleets; Coe.

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