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[email protected] warwick.ac.uk/lib-publications 1 Contents Contents……………………………………………………………………………………………….2 Table of Tables….………………………………………………………………………………….6 Table ofFigures….………………………………………………………………………………….6 Aknowledgements..……………………………………………………………………………...7 Declaration.…………………………………………………………………………………………..7 Abstract………………………………………………………………………………………………..9 Abbreviation..………………………………………………………………………………………10 Glossary of shipping terms and abbreviations….………………………………….12 Chapter 1. Introduction ….………………………………………………………………….13 1.1 Background..………………………………………………………………………………..13 1.2 What Decline………………………………………………………………………………..16 1.3 The focus of the thesis….…………………………………………………………….19 1.4 Structure of the thesis..……………………………………………………………….20 Chapter 2. Literature Review and research methods….……………………...22 2.1 Introduction…..……………………………………………………………………………22 2.2 Shipping an overview..………………………………………………………………..24 2.3 British government and shipping…………………………………………………25 2.4 Flag discrimination and decolonisation.……………………………………..26 2.5 Cartels and shipping conferences……………………………………………….28