At the beginning of February the Hamburg shipyard, Blohm & Voss, introduced the public to a new technical concept which may mean a revolution in shipbuilding: the “Pioneer”-multi-carrier. This design is composed of prefabricated elements. It is based on the mechanical assembly technique and...

Increasingly, German firms are adopting the practice of setting up production units abroad. The public is not altogether in favour of this trend. It is argued that in so doing German industry is creating a stick for its own back and may possibly—in the long term— prejudice its own export...

The rapid change in the European energy sector has mainly affected the coal. It is more and more threatened to lose its importance. The importance of exploitation and transport means increasing competitivenes of non-European suppliers, and technical progress enables the economical use of new...

Not so long ago, Senator Dirksen, Republican, and his Democrat colleague, Senator Hartke, have placed before the US Senate a complete bunch of new restrictive bills on Imports, intending to cut all Imports by laying down reduced quotas. They were to shield all the branches of the US economy that...

After almost twenty years of unparalleled economic growth, the Federal Republic of Germany has experienced a setback in 1967. The Federal Republic's Government is attempting to overcome this crisis with purposive economic policies. INTERECONOMICS had the opportunity of speaking to the Federal...