Shipping Industry

Sailing the seas onboard a cruise ship, the days filled with luxury and pampering, perfect weather, glorious food, and impeccable service... it's a dream vacation. Could there be anything be better than lounging on the deck of a floating resort, soaking up the sun, indulging in whatever fits your mood?

This publication by Ross Klein is revealing the dark underside of the cruising industry, examining the contrast between the expectations of the passengers of the romance and luxury that are commonly fostered by the rosy ads, and the real-life accommodations, meals, facilities and arrangements on board that are, of course, so much seedier.

The author has managed to explode the myth of the ship cruise as an AI vacation - he has demonstrated that the maritime industry's expectation is just to get as additional hundreds of bucks per day per passenger. The author has also performed a deep examination of the cruise vessel safety, attracting out attention to the accidents on the water, security of the passengers, illnesses on board, and medical services provided. In short, we can say that the book offer its readers quite a harsh critique and a call to the action appealing to both people intending to become passengers of the cruise ship, students and activists.

This book is about Greek ship owning family firms. It provides an interesting insight into the way which they followed and which turned them into leaders in world shipping. The Greek-owned shipping, that is, ship owned and/or operated by Greeks, increased from about one percent of the world fleet in 1947 to seventeen percent of the world fleet at the very beginning of the XXI century.

The authors of the volume have performed the examination of the basic factors that have eventually resulted in the Greek entrepreneurship in the family businesses; they have also presented the evidence for the family companies owned by Greeks looking at their management and organization principles as well as their strategies.

A good book not only to the maritime industry professionals who may find something new for them but also for the people outside of the industry but having some interest in maritime business since they may track the success of those families and try to understand what led them to it...

The established and supported transport policies are currently undergoing several major changes transcending national boundaries. Subject changes are commonly typified by the reform of regulatory regimes in many countries and they are influenced by both developments within the transportation sector and factors outside of it.

General patterns of liberalization and privatization could actually be observed within the sector and trade liberalization and total globalization of demand industries have been thoroughly documented. Concurrent with this change in business climate should be a complete re-examination of the competition policy taking into account it's relation to the liner maritime shipping.

Moreover, there are unique competition policy features for this industry, which is a global one by any definition. Yet it faces divergent, national regulation. From both commercial and regulatory perspectives, the progress path wanders through a minefield of regulatory disharmony towards a standard set of rules governing firms in the liner shipping industry. This book will be interesting for all people in the maritime industry, including ship owners, managers, management of the shipping companies, maritime authorities and others.

This volume prepared by two recognized Australian experts in the shipping industry. Today, much of the Australian's business is closely tied up with the ocean, and its future will definitely also be connected with sea. That was the truth a decade ago, as well. The exclusive economic zone of Australia exceeds its land mass holding huge potential for the resource and economic development of the region.

We should note, however, that such issues as protection and security will always go together with the potential. The oceans that surround the area are holding a key to the Australia's economic growth and development as well as to its national security being assigned highest priority. Note that the total scope of the opportunities for getting wealth from the ocean and have only been partly researched and explored.

The marine industries are generating billion-dollar revenue every year and the potential for the growth is still remaining significant taking into account the ongoing scientific and research projects and recent technological advances. The content of this book is expected to help in proper consideration of the critical matters of maritime strategy and ocean governance...

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.