Shipping Industry

The significant and thorough reconsideration of both tasks and responsibilities by the central governments is considered a real international phenomenon. There is an ongoing trend towards the increased mechanism of the market mechanism - we are talking about deregulation and privatization, and decentralization, including both functional and territorial; subject trend has become accepted worldwide for the past decades under the leadership of several former American and British political leaders, i.e. Reagan and Thatcher, respectively.

Even though the political doctrines were harmonized, the methods used for their of implementation were quite diverse. In America initially the decentralization opportunities that were presented by the so-called "New Federalism" were emphasized where the local government relied once more on its own vitality. In the meantime, the opportunities that were offered by privatization were mainly geared to contracting out. This is the useful document with the information useful to the people with professional interest in the industry.

The author of this thesis is providing the examination of the heuristic approaches in order to solve the SRSP, standing for the ship routing & scheduling problem. Subject method was originally developed to address the problems associated with loading cargo for the customers using the heterogeneous ships. the constraints are related to the delivery time windows that are commonly set by the customers.

The ultimate aim is the minimization of the overall operation costs keeping all customers satisfied. Two different routing and scheduling types have been considered. The first type is called the single-cargo problem - in this case the ship is loaded with only one cargo, while the second approach implies loading different products for their transportation and delivery to the different customers.

The document opens with the general information about the transportation management and sea transportation, followed by the chapters dealing with the integer programming and approximate techniques, providing the a good overview of transportation research, exact approach design, model variation, specification and algorithms applied to the ship scheduling, and many other aspects of the problem.

This book has been prepared for the professionals of the shipping industry as well as for the maritime students. It will offer them an excellent experience if they are willing to get acquainted with the numerous different aspects of global shipping of today particularly focusing on the innovation dynamics. The content is arranged in four major sections.

The first section is devoted to the international shipping and the world economy, covering the seaborne trade and global economy, shipbuilding dynamics, and a thorough analysis of today's shipping market. The second section deals with the ship innovation including the oil tankers, bulk carriers, container vessels, gas- and chemical tankers and other types of ships, and shortsea shipping, benchmarking, ports, and triggers for innovation.

The third section addresses the innovation theory focusing on the wealth creation and business, creativity, business clusters, and other aspects of innovation. Finally, the last fourth section deals with the ship design and includes several case studies - in this section the author provides some required ship terminology, ship design methods, sustainable shipping and ballast-free ship innovation and other topics considered relevant.

Have a look into this latest release of the Shipping Industry Almanac prepared by Ernst & Young continuing 2013, 2014 and 2015 issues. We also have several other issues of this annually published and internationally recognized document. As usual, the document is intended to provide the shipping industry people with the truly comprehensive overview of the whole infrastructure of the local maritime industry as well as of the corporate, tax and regulatory environments in almost fifty jurisdictions spread worldwide.

For almost two decades this Almanac has been serving as one of the most informative and so respected papers popular among the industry professionals in most countries of the world. Note that in order to have the most complete idea of the state-of-the-art of the shipping industry we would recommend you to go through all issues of the Almanac readily available for immediate download at Libramar. The information is traditionally sorted by countries from A to Z for easiest and quickest reference. Download them and check the content.

And this is the EY Shipping Industry Almanac released in 2015. Since its very first edition which was published nearly twenty years ago, the Almanac has been providing all interested persons with the required updates in order to keep them in line with the latest developments in the maritime industry.

The content of each of the issues is traditionally prepared by the industry professionals working in different countries and covers the infrastructure of the shipping industry, regulatory documentation, tax environments and corporate matters. Note that there are some 2013, 2014 and 2016 issues also available at Libramar.

However, note that the content of these documents is generally prepared for information only and shall not be used for the tax or accounting activities or relied upon as the specific professional advice. In the mean time, it shall be looked at as the excellent information source and a must-read for everyone involved in the industry in any way, the information will be useful for all of them.

This officially published Almanac is released annually by the world recognized Ernst & Young's global shipping industry network; subject network joins the efforts of the maritime industry experts in more than fifty Ernst & Young member companies.

This Almanac has been keeping readers informed and duly updated for the last two decades since the time when its initial edition was published. The publication is traditionally intended to provide all interested persons with a summary of the local shipping industry infrastructure as well as regulatory, tax and corporate environments for more than forty countries. The info provided in each country chapter was thoroughly researched and prepared by resident EY industry professionals.

At the closing part of the document the readers may find a comprehensive directory of EY shipping industry executives across their service major lines. These Almanacs are the must-have publications for those people who are willing to be kept in line with all latest happenings in the international shipping industry. Note that we also have 2013, 2015 and 2016 EY Shipping Industry Almanacs readily available. Download all of them and have a clear picture.

Welcome to the 2014 Showcase of Shipping Port International, the first publication fully dedicated to presenting cargo-port destinations and their terminal operators to a the ship owners and operators. The document is covering such important aspects of maritime shipping industry as port community systems and major environmental issues, technology spotlight and port directory and so many others.

The book will be of great practical benefit for the categories of readers mentioned above due to the amount of useful information it provides. The compilers of this volume have covered the port-centric solutions and examined the security issues together with the exploration of the implications of huge sized container ships.

Though this is not a textbook but rather the informational booklet, we would still recommend you to have a look since the info contained and topics covered may be interesting and practical. Note that the opening chapter of the document contains the overview of the latest developments collected from the ports around the planet.

This publication contains the results of the richest and comprehensive professional study ever undertaken of the conditions and factors determining both range and scope of maritime activities in Arctic region. Moreover, subject study is the first one to compare the three transportation corridors available today in the subject area.

Among the factors addressed during the study there were geopolitics and global warming problem, modern trends in the international economics, available resources, military affairs and many other interdependent and interacting factors.

The study should not be treated only as a complete and thorough interdisciplinary analysis of the Arctic region - it will also serve as a remarkably user-friendly guidebook to be used by anyone engaged in shipping, scientific, legal or commercial activities in the region.

The content is very well prepared and illustrated; it includes numerous detailed and informative maps and figures making it a really required reading for persons with any interest in Arctic region and shipping activities there. Note that there are not too many publications available today and covering this topic so have a close look.