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IMO's ISPS Code and International Maritime Security Issues

after 9/11, William A. ONeil, the Secretary-General of the IMO, proposed a "Review of Measures and Procedures to Prevent Acts of T...

Terrorism, Maritime Security, and Shipping Containers After the September 11, 2001 Attacks

weapons in outwardly harmless looking shipping containers (Smith, 2002). This report strongly suggests that delivering such nucle...

ARAMEX

their expectations by providing global, customized logistics and information solutions rapidly, reliably and cost-effectively (Ara...

Allocation Assessment and Pricing for a Container Ship

of the calculation seeing the 40 foot containers charged at twice the price of the 20 foot containers. The costs for the 40 foot c...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Introduction The work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez is referred to as magical realism for there are elements within his stories that ...

Effects of Globalization and International Shipping

their revenue and provides more work for employees. Yaw (8) commented that companies have been trying to find strategies that wil...

Why Ships Float and Nails Sink

the rock is not changing physically (i.e., its not falling apart and losing weight by changing its physical shape), it must be bei...

An Overview of Fleet Management in Shipping

higher level of competition chasing the demand, This is resulting in many unused ships and fleet managers have to decide i...

Advantage to Other Forms of Transport?

types of transport for many reasons. The development of air freight and increased use of passenger aircraft to carry cargo provi...

"The Way of a Ship"

mountains and is in compression. In its most violent manifestation (a williwaw) it can dump over high land spilling out onto the w...

The Good Ship "Lead Balloon"

aluminum alloy." One of the problems is that the Saturn 5 was built by a bunch of different contractors, and there is now no compl...

Pollution and the Tourism Industry

was worth a total of $5.5 trillion (Wagner, 2005). In the United States the travel and tourism sector is very important to the ec...

The Principle Agent Relationship between Management and Employees

common ground can be found and the relationship can be beneficial to both the employer and the employee. A useful framework that c...

Ballast Water and Invasive Species

and the Issue Group on Sustainable Shipping (IGSS) are the coordinating agencies seeking the cooperation of the European Union, OS...

A Most Fortunate Ship

particular national treasure which has taken the military through many different periods in history. Such is further enhanced by M...

UK Shipping Law and VBeem Case Study

lading itself is not a contract itself, as seen with the case of Swewell v Burdick (1884) 10 App Cas 74 and also The Ardennes [195...

Containing Shipping Operational Issues

involvement in management of the Ports which has also increased the level of productivity, but means increased levels of negotiati...

Moscow and Chocolate Exportation

dominated by local companies (Russian Food Market Magazine, 2005). In Moscow, this market is held by Rot-Front, Babayevskoye and K...

Indonesia Rice Shipments by the United States

Denmark-based Maersk Sealand is one of the largest surface shippers in the world. It maintains more than 250 container vessels an...

Container Ports and Mega Ship Deployment Impacts

the need to change and adapt to changing ship sizes is not unique to this time. There has been change in the shipping industry for...

The Trade of Feeder Container Ships

This 9 page paper looks at the trade and commercial operations of feeder container ships. The paper looks at what trade they take ...

Mitigating Future Oil Spill Risk

all portage areas, and certainly is Californias most dangerous waters.4 Once onboard a visiting ship, the pilot has total command...

Decision Making in a Small Company

Im concerned about expanding our computer technology in light of the fact that ABC is a recent new customer and our initial contra...

Slave Food

morning (Spartacus International). A slave at a different location reported being given a "peck of sifted cornmeal, a dozen and a ...

Virtually Reality Genre; Star Trek's Next-Generation Episode Ship In A Bottle As A Forerunner Of Virtual Reality In The Matrix And The Thirteenth Floor

as a commercially viable and attractive genre by its continued existence and evolution. In all three of the production to ...

TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT AT DHL

fact that logistics tends to be somewhat slow when it comes to innovation and management, the advent of computers, bar code system...

Dell's Supply Chain

One supply chain consultant noted that "Supply chains today are working like worldwide production lines ... We cant afford safety ...

Efficiency and Costs of Electronic Data Exchange

In five pages this research paper examines EDI in terms of processes and uses with the emphasis upon shipping and manufacturing wi...

Global and U.S. Shipping

In eight pages this research essay discusses a U.S. and Greek joint shipping venture in a consideration of differences such as cul...

Titanic's 1912 Sinking

In ten pages this research paper examines the 1912 sinking of the Titanic in an overview of such topics as its construction, the r...