Shipping Industry

Some ten years back the ITMMA and the Department for Regional, Port and Transport Economics of Erasmus University Rotterdam jointly organized a conference on the theme "Ports in proximity". The theme of ports in proximity is highly relevant: while most of the port users are international companies, most ports are governed by local institutions.

The present volume has been released to provide a good overview of the most important modern researches concerning a broad range of case studies of international nature. The authors of the publication have applied the major effective concepts of supply chain management as well as strategic management and transport and port economics throughout the content of the volume in order to let their readers get to the proper understanding of all processes that are commonly underlying both functional and spatial dynamics.

They have also performed examination of the opportunities existing there between the adjacent and competing sea ports, identifying the paths for the further joint researches and studies. Have a close look if you are interested in a subject area of shipping industry and you will find so much of useful information inside.

One of the best titles available today providing the most up-to-date information about the planning, constructing and maintaining marine ports. The content was prepared in response to the constantly growing demands of a global world economy, which have eventually resulted in significant changes in the ships, cargo handling and maritime transportation technologies.

The publication presents in a single volume all recent developments and latest information related to the port planning, their building, maintenance and provision of the security. The book was edited by the recognized experts and authorities in the shipping industry whose combined efforts have resulted in the excellent volume addressing all important issues relating to the development of ports and harbors, floating and bottom-fixed terminals as well as other structures and facilities considered essential for the effective functioning of any port.

The content includes valuable information about the design and further construction of the breakwaters, port security practices, environmental issues; it also provides the seismic guidelines to be taken into account when performing the design of marine structures. The book will be appreciated by all engineers working with the marine ports...

This book is mainly concerned with the regime and current practice of the granting of refuge in a port or any other safe haven, i.e.,a "place of refuge", to a vessel needing immediate assistance. A ship may actually require assistance in various situations, and sometimes that assistance may be provided to the vessel while it is at sea, such as when a seriously ill or injured seafarer on-board needs to be airlifted to receive urgent medical treatment in a hospital.

Occasionally, there are situations where the ship's safety is at stake as a result of stress of weather, so-called force majeure or an urgent necessity. Perhaps the ship has received salvage assistance, and the salvor is instructed and obligated to take the stricken ship to a safe place. In such situations it is considered absolutely imperative for the ship to seek and enter the closest safe haven available.

When a ship seeks refuge, in all cases it will be for exceptional reasons and in exceptional situations. The place of refuge is not normally the intended destination of the vessel. The content of this publication will be of practical interest for the persons dealing with subject issues, planning the shipping activities including the possible situations where the vessel may have to seek for a refuge port.

Nowadays, the naval engineering is considered the area of professional study and expertise concerning the important aspects of design of the naval vessels, their construction as well as operation and routine maintenance. The ONR, the abbreviation standing for the Office of Naval Research provides all necessary assistance to the specialists engaged in the technical and scientific researches supporting the naval engineering.

The main content of the present study is made on the basis of the information obtained from the meetings at the Marine Board of the TRB, i.e. Transportation Research Board. Subject discussions have highlighted the significant role played by the ONR in education and research activities in the field of naval engineering and have also identified the demand for the assessment of the effectiveness of the Office in fulfilling this important role...

The present publication provides readers with the results obtained in the course of the very latest researches as well as the technological innovations that all were presented during the Conference held in Trondheim, Norway in 2014.

The content of the document is arranged in several chapters, presenting the articles covering such areas as the optimization of the port-ship interface, maritime transportation activities and related operations in the Arctic region, effective infrastructure of the sea ports, various novel fuels including LNG, their use and distribution, use of the environmentally-friendly and efficient sources of energy in ports and on board ships, remotely controlled and remotely monitored shipping traffic control and surveillance, logistics optimization, safe maritime operations and many other important topics.

The volume is expected to significantly contribute to the reliability and efficiency of the maritime transport and operations; it will be useful to the practicing engineers and scientists working in the field of marine technology researches.

Here is a research work performed by the Rear Admiral Raja Menon trying to provide the explanation of how the maritime strategy relates to the warfare, paying particular attention to the mid-size and small powers who may possibly have little to no understanding on the value of a Navy. Following are the main topics addressed in this book - War and strategy; Current literature and case histories on the maritime strategy in the continental wars.

The remaining chapters of the volume are covering such important aspects of the maritime strategy as the wars on the economies and the Navies, the newly introduced option of the amphibious warfare, the United States maritime strategy, useable maritime strategy and battlespace dominance together with the speed of battle. A good volume for the persons with the interest in these aspects of the maritime strategy and naval issues.

This book is mainly dealing with the modern ship technology matters confronted by the management of the shipping companies during the recent decades. Some of the specific technologies have been described together with their regulatory, economic and even political aspects.

The content is arranged in fifteen chapters. While the first chapter is introductory, providing readers with some general overview of the shipping industry of today, chapters 2 to 6 are devoted to the liner shipping - that main emphasis has been set by the author to the real life examples taken from the experience of the shipping companies operating in America, such as the American Mail Line, American President Lines and others.

The chapters 7 to 13 are dealing with the fleet investment analysis, again based on the business experience of such companies as Ogden Marine, Legrand Shipping Co., Laval Maritime and other. Finally, the last chapter of this book addresses the ship-port interface using the Seadock and Loop and Venture Oil as the examples.

This volume is one of those forming the famous Marine Navigation an Safety of Sea Transportation, note that all other books of the series are also available at our site. This one was compiled to provide readers with a good and thorough overview of the transport and shipping matters and is mainly aimed at the maritime industry professionals and scientists directly engaged in the research activities and development of the navigation safety and transportation of cargoes by sea.

It contains the materials presented in the course of the TransNav symposium of maritime shipping industry professionals which took place in Poland in 2013 bringing together a widest range of the participants from all parts of the world and offering a remarkable variety of the topics to discuss, including safety at sea, training of the navigators, maneuverability of the ships, sea traffic engineering issues, maritime simulators and their use for educating future navigators, integrated systems, ECDIS, anti-collision systems, radio-navigation equipment and other important items. have a look i this book and to all others making this series.