When Paul Soros, as a young engineer, observed that large cargo ships could not get to shallow-water piers to load and unload, he came up with a radical solution: take the piers to the ships.
The idea sprang from his boyhood in Hungary. He remembered seeing buoys being used to create floating piers on the Danube, where he and his younger brother, George, who would grow up to become one of the richest men in the world, spent peaceful days at the family’s summer home before war changed everything for them.
Replicating the system in the United States, Mr. Soros, who died early Saturday at his home in Manhattan at 87, went on to build Soros Associates, which has dominated the port-building industry and shifted international trade and production patterns through its shipping innovations.
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equineluvr ago
Paul Soros wasn't just in the shipping business.
He was a port innovator --
When Paul Soros, as a young engineer, observed that large cargo ships could not get to shallow-water piers to load and unload, he came up with a radical solution: take the piers to the ships.
The idea sprang from his boyhood in Hungary. He remembered seeing buoys being used to create floating piers on the Danube, where he and his younger brother, George, who would grow up to become one of the richest men in the world, spent peaceful days at the family’s summer home before war changed everything for them.
Replicating the system in the United States, Mr. Soros, who died early Saturday at his home in Manhattan at 87, went on to build Soros Associates, which has dominated the port-building industry and shifted international trade and production patterns through its shipping innovations.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/business/paul-soros-shipping-innovator-dies-at-87.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Also a grad of the London School of Economics, which was founded by the Fabian Society (no surprise there).
bannedfromlife ago
Family attraction water is interesting. Are they genetically connected in any way to water gypsies or marsh arabs? I have a theory that all the fisher folk throughout the world are related.
UnicornAndSparkles ago
I like your thinking!