Shipping Industry & Logistics

The original version of the present volume was published on thew day of the fifteenth anniversary of the very first container voyage; today, it is treated as the first complete history of the shipping container. The publication is recounting how the containerization proceeded the entire path starting from a quite impractical idea and until the time when it turned into a really massive industry slashing the cost of worldwide transportation of cargoes and eventually resulting in the real boom in the global trade.

However, the "containerization" of the world did not just happen. The adoption of the container required great money and required years of negotiations on the applicable standards that finally made it possible for the containers to travel on vessel or train or truck. In his publication, the famous economist of today, Marc Levinson, is demonstrating how the containers managed to transform the economic geography thus devastating the traditional ports such as New York and London fueling the growth of ones that were previously obscure. The volume provides the information that would be different to the people of any transportation industry not limited to the maritime shipping since the containers are used virtually everywhere.

Here is another useful publication released by the marine professionals of the Marine Insight web resource, and this one is addressing the commercial operations of the oil tankers and associated documentations. It has been compiled by one of the leading marine experts of the community fact. Handling the documentation properly is extremely important since any, even relatively small, mistake could easily result in the significant loss of revenue.

Therefore, it is a "must" to be duly familiar with the professional jargon and all documents involved. The publication is divided into seven major chapters dealing with the finding cargo and fixing the ship, important documentation for the terminal and for the surveyor, and at the load and at the discharge port. There is a separate chapter dedicated to the letters of protest, i.e. LoP. In addition to that, a Glossary providing main terms and definitions supplements the publication.

This book will be very useful for anyone involved in making arrangements in the field of the oil transportation by sea. The amount as well as quality of the material provided in it makes the publication of great interest for any maritime business professional as it allows them to make proper decisions affecting the effectiveness of such deals.

The 2013 release of the Ernst & Young's annual Shipping Industry Almanac. Just note that we may also offer you to have a look into 2014, 2015 and 2016 releases. The publication is intended to keep all people having some interest in maritime shipping industry updated with everything taking place therein so that they are updated with all happenings.

In order to have a complete picture of what is going on and has been going on in the industry we would recommend our visitors to download all available issues of the Almanac. The main idea of the compilers of the Almanac was to keep EY friends and clients informed paying due attention to the details.

The content of the Almanac is based on the valuable inputs from more than a hundred of shipping executives working for more than fifty companies spread all around the world. As it is the case with all other issues of Almanac, this one covers such important subject as corporate structure, taxes, registration requirements, human capital and others.

Properly conducted and efficient measurement always plays a very important role in all kinds of production. The team of authors of this book made an attempt to analyze the relationship between three factors - ownership, competition and, finally, port efficiency by means of traditional theories and empirical examination. With the ongoing globalization of the world economy, the importance of the container port industry is increasing.

The research conducted by the authors was mainly motivated by the existing contrast between the importance of today's container port industry and a very limited number of thorough scientific researches of the economic theories underpinning it. Most part of such theories is based simply on the assumptions and shall be investigated much more thoroughly. Another motivating factor was the importance of the efficiency measurement and lack of such researches in the industry in question. This publication consists of seven chapter, with first and last ones being introduction and conclusion, correspondingly.

The main body of the book is telling readers about the economic theory of container port production, describes some of the alternative approaches to the measurement of the efficiency, provides model specification and data, as well as empirical analysis and results. Numerous appendices provide some required supplementary info.

Everyone knows that the maritime piracy is the oldest and classic the international crime; in the frames of the international law the pirates are commonly and deservedly treated as the "enemies of mankind". Though it was prevalent in the period between and including XVII and XVIII centuries, regretfully maritime piracy has not completely gone away.

Nowadays, the maritime piracy mainly affects the waters off West and East Africa and Southeast Asia, but it can and does strike worldwide at any time. It is considered a very serious threat to the international maritime shipping, imposing highest financial costs together with the costs of welfare and even human life. Over the past ten years three thousand or more actual and attempted pirate attacks were reported, and the annual costs were estimated somewhere between six and seven billion dollars.

This amount is actually down from as much as sixteen billion just a few years ago—due in large part, we believe, to the increasing use of on-board armed guards. Still, the problem remains a significant one that has bedeviled international efforts at enforcing anti-piracy laws. The purpose of this monograph is to use economic methods both to describe the nature of maritime piracy and to understand the difficulties involved in organizing optimal enforcement efforts...

The ultimate aim of this volume was to provide a good overview of the port economics for students, scientists and professionals of the maritime industry. Apart from the introductory part, the book has been divided into five major parts all of them being self-contained and addressing demand for the services provided by port, provision of such services using such functions as cost, production and investment, general equilibrium approach, natural monopolies and cost benefit analysis.

We know that the ports are deservedly treated as the arteries of the economic organism; the present publication is a real must-read book for all people who are required to have knowledge of the port economics; it will also serve as an excellent additional to the book shelf of any economics enthusiast. We definitely recommend it to all participants of the shipping industry especially to the persons engaged in port activities and we are quite sure that all of them will find something useful in the content of this highly useful and informative volume.

A really unique new comprehensive reference book which was released aiming to provide readers with the professional insight into the modern freight transport modelling. The authors of the book focus on models that are used to analyze the support public transport policies, introduce the recently developed approaches and describe the main techniques and methods established at operational models.

The freight transport is considered an important part of the world economy since it bridges the distances existing there between the seriously separated places of demand/supply. In the past, the associated transport flows grew continuously taking into account the increase in the human population and fall of the trade barriers.

The authors of the volume have tried to disseminate better instruments of evaluation of the freight transport policies giving concise descriptions of the mathematical models with the main focus being made of the fields deviating from the passenger models, supporting the policy design in a number of ways including performance assessment, design/optimization, forecasting of flows mentioned above, and their description on a base year...

The author of this remarkably comprehensive and informative publication has managed to compile a brand new and wide-ranging collection of the expert opinions on the shipping trade and the environment. During the past twenty years both scholars and policy makers have been seriously struggling trying to understand how exactly the global international trade affects the natural environment.

In his book, Kevin Gallagher is providing readers with the instruments to do that. the content of the book is divided in three main parts. The first part is dealing with the trade and environmental quality, while the second part is devoted to the trade and environmental politics, and the last third part deals with the trade and environmental policy itself.

The topics covered within this book include the pollution haven hypothesis, investor rights, trade institutions, water resources management, foreign direct investment, global shipping industry, sustainable industrial development, and many others. The publication is expected to serve as an excellent practical guide for the newcomers to the industry and policy-makers who require a quick and handy reference to the relevant researches.