An official release by New Sulzer Diesel Ltd. The content of the volume is arranged in four parts. While the first part of the book is introductory and provides some general technical information, the second and third parts contain tightening instructions for the normal screws and waisted studs. The closing part of the volume contains the service bulletins that were officially published for the large bore engines of RTA type produced by Sulzer. The document will be practically useful for the people dealing with operation of subject engines, their maintenance and repair.

The official service bulletin from Sulzer - this one was prepared to provide the necessary instructions for the improvement on the control system of the diesel engines of RTA-type produced by Sulzer company. The major portion of this instruction document has been dedicated to the modifications proposed to be conducted on the "G" valve group of the subject engines and to the remote control systems. The information presented in the volume will be interesting for the technical personnel dealing with the RTA-type diesel engines. The service bulletins are also there concluding the document.

A great one-stop essential reference source designed and released for the engineers who are involved in the fields of naval architecture/marine engineering. In his publication, the author brought together the valuable inputs done by a number of the world recognized industry experts in order to prepare an inclusive volume aimed to a very wide audience made of the marine engineers and naval architects as well as all other people involved in various operations, related to this field.

The book covers the key aspects of ship design, construction and further operation - for example, stability and flotation of the vessel, ship strength, ship structures, vessel propulsion, seakeeping, ship handling and maneuvering and all other areas considered important. It explores the maritime safety as well as all matters of the marine environment protection.

Moreover, the new technologies have also been dealt with in the pages of this reference book - it covers the construction and operation of the ROVs (i.e. remotely operated vehicles) that are nowadays used for the underwater inspection of the structures, and also the application of the computer systems in the ship design process. It provides a remarkably comprehensive technical overview made by the best-selling and popular authors and addresses the key facts and figures.

In the several years that have passed since the times when the first Handbook was released, everyone has noticed numerous events that impacted the shipping markets. The present release of the Handbook contains numerous chapters covering such the important aspects of the maritime economics and business as the business during the XXI century, globalization-related issues, patterns of the international shipping, energy economics, shipping freight markets, shipping market cycles, modal split functions, recreation of the profit/loss of voyages conducted in the very distant past, a brief overview of the today's dry bulk shipping industry, short sea shipping, the tanker marker, its structure and associated economic analysis, co-operation and competition in liner shipping, the evolution of the global supply chain management plus the response of the liner shipping companies.

There is a separate part that has been dedicated solely to the vessel safety and pollution from ships, covering economic measures for air pollution control, accident analysis etc. The other chapters address shipping operations and management, shipping investments, finance and strategy, port economics and various important management aspects of the international logistics, information technology in logistics and shipping business, and others. The book has been influenced by the events that occurred in the early XXI century...

The declared purpose of the present handbook was to provide in a single book a ready and useful reference tool for the practicing engineers. The content of the volume has been arranged in a very comprehensive format being divided in thirty sections encompassing all related fields of engineering.

One of the main goals was to give readers the updated information in the classical engineering fields comprising mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, chemical engineering together with the materials science and mathematics.

The publication is intended to service the information and data needs of all engineering specialists involved in the real-life engineering practice. Another purpose of the authors was to replace a huge number of volumes with one exceptionally informative, perfectly organized and definitive source of fundamental engineering knowledge. The main focus has been made on the basic concepts, plus models and equations enabling engineers to perform a proper analysis, design and prediction of the behavior of different devices and systems, electrical circuits, fuels, computers etc.

They have summarized all important formulas and data with particular emphasis on the theories and concepts plus their application to various fields of engineering; the readers will find the fundamental engineering concepts explained, defined and illustrated in a proper order serving the practical needs.

Here is an excellent book released with the intention to provide readers with the necessary overview of the very latest advances in the recommended practices and technologies, as well as recognized international technical standards to help them achieve safest, most efficient and most economical power delivery in a dynamic environment of today.

The topics in this book include protection, dynamics and stability, and operation and control of electric power systems. The present release of the publication contains five completely new and ten significantly revised chapters, supplying the highest level of detail. The material presented in the book is supplemented with so many professional images and graphs making it much easier for the reader to understand it. Among the new chapters there are ones addressing the wind power integration, systems aspects of large black-outs. stability assessment, dynamic security performance and others.

This handbook shall definitely be considered a very useful and practical tool that has to be there is every electrical technician's and engineer's library. Moreover, we would recommend this book even to the students wishing to fresh out their technical knowledge of the electric power systems.

This publication by Al Ross belonging to the Anatomy of the Ship series from Conway Maritime Press is dedicated to the famous escort carrier Gambier Bay, which was a Casablanca class mid-was carrier serving within the United States Navy Fleet. The book addresses the remarkable service history of the carrier, machinery, hull structure and general arrangement, fire control equipment, radar, catapult, searchlights, armament, boats and camouflage, and, of course, aircraft.

The drawings provided in the publication depict general arrangement of the ship, machinery, construction details, lines, fittings, armament, rig, boats, camouflage, battle damage and flight deck arrangements. In general, the publication follows the usual established format, and consists of the historical and descriptive parts, followed by a group of images and many detailed drawings of the USS Gambier Bay.

For sure, all readers will gain a significant amount of understanding of the construction and specific features of this class of ships, and this fact makes us consider this book very useful for the naval enthusiasts, ship model makers and all other people willing to know a bit more about the naval ships and wars of the past.

As it is seen from the title, this book provides most of the acronyms and abbreviations that are in use in shipping industry and international trade. It was prepared by Peter Kapoor, Master Mariner. Here is the second edition of the publication. Due to the very rapid advances occurred to the technology and commerce, including ones in maritime industry, so many new abbreviations have been introduced, and all of those newly appeared abbreviations have actually been unabated during last decades.

This made the author completely revise the first edition of this book in order to update it with the results of the very latest developments in the shipping industry and commerce. The format of the book has been significantly simplified to make all of the acronyms and abbreviations appear in one alphabetical sequence - this made the book much easier to use. In fact, the previous edition of the publication only included those foreign acronyms and abbreviations for which the full form was readily available.

The author has changed his approach and no the second edition of the book includes all foreign abbreviations, even if their full term is not available. The book will be very useful for the workers of the shipping companies and anyone involved in the shipping industry and dealing with the commercial matters.