Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Freightened : the real price of shipping / a Polar Star Films production in co-production with La Compagnie des Taxi-Brousse, SWR/NDR, France Télévisions, Aljazeera Documentary Channel ; written and directed by Denis Delestrac ; produced by Carles Brugueras, Laurent Mini, Karim Samai, Marieke van den Bersselaar.

Publisher, Date:

[Corte Madera, California] : Green Planet Films, [2016]

Description:

1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in. burning

NTSC

video file region 1

DVD video

Summary:

Looks at the role played by cargo shipping in the global economy. Raises ethical questions pertaining to the shipping industry such as the exploitation of workers from developing countries, the poor conditions of the shipping fleets due to poor maintenance, and the environmental effects caused by the wreckage of vessels.

Subjects:

Shipping.

Shipping -- Environmental aspects.

Shipping -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Globalization -- Economic aspects.

Globalization -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Freight and freightage.

Cargo ships.

Genre:

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Documentary films.

Environmental films.