Dissertations / Theses: 'Maritime Shipping'

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Wu, Yeong-Chyan. "The economic regulation of ocean liner shipping in a newly industrializing country : a survey of alternative regulatory modes and policy considerations concerning Taiwan's liner industry /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9628.

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Metaparti, Satya Prakash. "Risk management initiatives for post 9/11 maritime security." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42841859.

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Davis, Joel D. "Maritime security and the Strait of Malacca a strategic analysis /." Fort Leavenworth, KS : US Army Command and General Staff College, 2006. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA479400.

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Mitchell, Colin L. "Countering maritime terrorism in the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean : implications of possible maritime terrorism in the Caribbean /." Fort Leavenworth, Kan. : [U.S. Army Command and General Staff College], 2007. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA475516.

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Österman, Cecilia. "Cost-benefit of Ergonomics in Shipping." Thesis, Industrial ergonomics, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-20033.

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Specialists in ergonomics believe that what is good ergonomics is also goodeconomics for many industrial settings. This relationship between ergonomicsand economics is supported by research on several industrial settings. Thisstudy turns to investigate this relationship within the maritime domain.Shipping naturally faces the same work environment problems as commonlyseen on work places ashore. Additionally, there is however a social and culturaldimension to the work environment in what might be the most globalisedindustry of all.This study is performed as a pilot study to a larger project within theeconomics of maritime ergonomics. The aim of this thesis is to review themajor issues in the research of maritime ergonomics and how cost-benefit ofergonomics is calculated in other domains. Furthermore, the thesis also aims atinvestigate which ergonomic factors that are considered the most important bythe shipping industry itself and if the economics of ergonomics is calculated inthe Swedish shipping industry.The review of scientific literature on maritime ergonomics is divided into threeareas of interest: organisation and management, occupational health and safetyand psychosocial work environment. No studies were found on cost-benefitcalculations within shipping. There are however several methods for evaluationand calculation from other domains. The result of the nine qualitativeinterviews shows a predominant occupation in the area of organisation.Important factors mentioned in the interviews that are believed to affect safety,productivity and well-being include leadership and social skills,communication between and within the shorebased organisation and the vessel,as well as knowledge on several levels. A survey among ten Swedish shippingowners shows that beyond the costs of sick-leave, the shipowners do not on aregular basis calculate the costs and benefits of ergonomics.Further research includes a stakeholder analysis; defining the operativemeasurements of productivity, quality and effectiveness for a maritime setting;an accident analysis and the compilation of Best Practise within shipping.

Specialister inom arbetsmiljöområdet är övertygade om att en bra arbetsmiljöockså är bra för ett företags ekonomi. Detta förhållande mellan arbetsmiljö ochekonomi har påvisats i flera studier inom olika branscher. Den här studienundersöker sambandet mellan en god arbetsmiljö och god ekonomi inomsjöfarten. Inom sjöfarten återfinns naturligtvis samma arbetsmiljöproblem somhos andra branscher men i det som kanske är den mest globaliserade branschenav alla finns det också en framträdande social och kulturell dimension iarbetsmiljön.Den här uppsatsen är utförd som en pilotstudie till ett större forskningsprojektinom sjöfart och arbetsmiljöekonomi. Målet med uppsatsen är att undersökainom vilka områden det forskas på inom sjöfartens arbetsmiljö samt attundersöka hur kostnadsnytta av arbetsmiljö beräknas. Dessutom ämnaruppsatsen undersöka vilka arbetsmiljöfaktorer som de olika sjöfartsaktörernasjälva anser vara de viktigaste och om branschen själv räknar på arbetsmiljönidag.Granskningen av den vetenskapliga litteraturen om sjöfartens arbetsmiljö äruppdelad i tre områden: organisation och ledarskap, hälsa och säkerhet, samtden psykosociala arbetsmiljön. Inga studier återfanns som berördearbetsmiljöekonomi inom sjöfarten. Det finns däremot ett flertal metoder ochmodeller för ekonomisk utvärdering och beräkning av arbetsmiljöåtgärder frånandra branscher. Resultatet av nio kvalitativa intervjuer visar fokus påorganisatoriska arbetsmiljöfaktorer. Viktiga faktorer som informanterna anserhar inverkan på säkerhet, arbetsmiljö och produktivitet inkluderar ledarskap;kommunikation ombord och mellan fartyg och landorganisation; och kunskappå olika nivåer. En undersökning hos tio svenska rederier visar att utöverkostnader för sjukfrånvaro räknar företagen inte regelbundet på kostnader ochvinster för arbetsmiljön.Förslag till framtida forskning inkluderar en intressentanalys, att definiera ochbeskriva de operativa rationalitetsmåtten produktivitet, kvalitet och effektivitetför sjöfarten, olycksfallsanalys och sammanställandet av exempel av ”BestPractise” inom sjöfarten.

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Rowlinson, M. "The decline of UK merchant shipping 1975-90." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.240467.

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Howson, Michael. "Market contestability and shipping." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390661.

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Horck, Jan. "A mixed crew complement : a maritime safety challenge and its impact on maritime education and training /." Malmö : Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2007. http://dspace.mah.se/handle/2043/5962.

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King, Oliver Henry. "The costs and benefits of maritime safety with reference to European Port State Control." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268240.

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Sanchez, Natalie Isabelle. "An historical and multi-jurisdictional study of jurisdiction clauses in internaional maritime carriage contracts." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12634.

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This dissertation aims to engage in an historical and multi-jurisdictional study of forum selection clauses in the context of international maritime carriage contracts by: 1. Describing the historical situation which led to the inclusion of jurisdiction clauses in maritime contracts in the first place, providing background information on their regulation, construction and validity under the law, and touching upon other important preliminary considerations ( Chapter 2 ); 2. Providing a multi-jurisdictional analysis of the national regulation and enforcement of jurisdiction clauses contained in carriage agreements ( Chapter 3 ); 3. Providing an overview of the European regulation and enforcement of jurisdiction clauses contained in carriage agreements ( Chapter 4 ) ; 4. Providing an overview of the regulation and enforcement of jurisdiction clauses under the Hamburg and Rotterdam Rules ( Chapter 5 ); and 5. Offering suggestions for achieving greater harmonization of rules on jurisdiction clauses and concluding remarks ( Chapter 6 ).

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Hadley, Michael Anthony. "Remote pilotage and enhanced navigation assistance." Thesis, Southampton Solent University, 2000. http://ssudl.solent.ac.uk/1240/.

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The drive to reduce costs and to ensure that ports can stay open to the maximum extent in all weathers has given impetus to the search for more flexible vessel traffic management; something that current advances in technology make it possible to contemplate. Various issues pose a significant challenge to implementation, including the inherent conservatism of the maritime community. Nonetheless, aspects of potential new services are already in regualr use. Remote pilotage is a detectable strand in EU research thinking and the port of Rotterdam is preparing for its all weather implementation. First the issues involved were established by means of a literature search followed by a series of structured interviews and a questionnaire. the results were analysed, leading to a body of results that can be used by those seeking to make decisions in this area of maritime operations. A comparison with Air Traffic Management concluded that there would be merit in adopting some of its philosophy and procedures. specific focus was then given to establishing, by means of a questionnaire, a generic set of indicators by which it can be decided whether specific vessels quality for a given new service. Throughout the research qualitative data was sought from highly qualified professionals. Two new services are proposed; remote pilotage and enhanced navigation assistance. In the hierarchy of services they fit between the provision of an on board pilot and those currently provided by a VTS. Working definitions of both services have been established. The required technology is either available or can be seen to be a realistic prospect. AIS has emerged as a key enabling technology and the exchange of passage plans will be important. However,technology alone will not suffice to make change practible. The non-technological issues are more intractable but capable of solution. Progress, if realised, can be expected to be slow; the current assessment for the spread of remote pilotage is 10-15 years. A case cannot be made for the implementation of remoter pilotage or enhanced navigation assistance on the grounds of improved safety; an acceptable level of safety must be assumed to exist. There is also a need for the appropriate legislative framework to be in place and the issue of liability to be resolved. Ultimately the prime requirement for successful implementation is the realisation of a commercial benefit to both a port and the ship owner.

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Lewins, Kate. "The Trade Practices Act (Cth) 1974 and its impact on maritime law in Australia /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2008. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20081223.135713.

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Ogega, Peris B. "The use of port state measures as a tool of combating illegal unreported unregulated fishing: Is there a need for expansion of coastal state jurisdiction?" Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32544.

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This dissertation examines the scope and limitations of port state jurisdiction with respect to the enforcement of international conservation and management measures established under international and national instruments. The current fisheries regulatory regimes rely primarily on flag states to enforce these measures against foreign vessels. The aim of this dissertation is to recommend an expansion of port state enforcement jurisdiction over foreign vessels when fishing in the high seas. The expansion of port state jurisdiction supplements the role of flag states in enforcing the provisions of international conventions and agreements applicable in the high seas and also fills in where flag of convenience fishing vessels have failed to do so. To support this view, the dissertation will compare the issue of illegal unreported unregulated fishing with the issue of marine pollution. The significance of this comparison is to show how provisions in regard to marine pollution, have legitimized the expansion of port state jurisdiction to the extent that port states have enforcement jurisdiction over foreign flagged vessels which violate the provisions of LOSC relating to marine pollution in the high seas.

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Horck, Jan. "A Mixed Crew Complement : A maritime safety challenge and its impact on maritime education and training." Licentiate thesis, Malmö högskola, Skolutveckling och ledarskap (SOL), 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-7647.

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The human factor/human element starts to have a key role in accidents and incidents during shipments at sea. Investigations show that poor communications increasingly are the root for many tragedies. A possible reason for communication constraints is the growing trend to employ multicultural crews. This thesis aims to document this new challenge in the maritime industry and to endeavour to show how the Maritime Education and Training (MET) can address the problem. The lack of a company crewing policy entails a variation in management standards; it causes confusion. Therefore, it is commonly advised that a common working language be used and expressed in the company policy. It is not only substandard communication that lies behind accidents but also a lack of cultural awareness and “wrong” stereotyping. This is a worrying situation. Researchers in the maritime field have tried to quantify and describe the risks and identify possible benefits with multicultural crews. Disappointingly, the results show a strong disharmony. The industry appears not to be capable of coping with diversity or hesitates to balance eventual advantages with eventual risks. The reason could be that past research studies rather confuse the industry, instead of giving useful guidance. The research strategy, that has been used to find pros and cons in multicultural crews, perhaps has not been the best suited. This thesis aims to propagate for a professionally applied inductive strategy to phenomena related to human factor constraints in the shipping industry. This thesis is also urging MET institutions to conduct courses in cultural awareness and increase the learning goal in English to something more than bare basic. With World Maritime University (WMU) students as the prime research object, it has been found that studying in a multicultural environment is not problem free but instead creates an opportunity to increase the students’ communicative competence. This research study looks at the aspects of psychology, language and pedagogy to conclude that there is a need for courses in cultural awareness. Most likely, multicultural crews in the shipping industry are an irreversible trend. The solutions presented in this thesis focus on communications and cultural awareness and the point made is that, if courses in these two subject areas are not introduced in MET, a mixed crew will continue to be a risk factor hazarding safety at sea. The implication of the results, from a WMU point of view, is that extended understanding of different cultures is a needed subject for both students and teachers. The present, high level of study contact time makes the need for such courses even more important.

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Karahalios, Hristos. "A risk based appraisal of maritime regulations in the shipping industry." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2009. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/5907/.

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Pohlit, Claude. "New Developments in Maritime Security and Their Impact on International Shipping." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4538.

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Security has been taken very seriously following the September 11 disaster in the USA. This paper examines the legal issues surrounding the prevention of maritime terrorism, especially IMO and American initiatives, and highlights the effects of these measures on the relationship between shipowners and charterers as well as between carrier and cargo.

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Grove, Alan Jon. "Icebergs dead ahead : anticipating increased maritime shipping in the Canadian Arctic." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/60691.

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Shipping is a fundamental feature of life in the Canadian North. Climate change is opening waterways between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, introducing the possibility of new vessels plying these waters as a transitory space. Furthermore, community growth and economic development activities have increased domestic maritime traffic in the region as well. The regulation and support of shipping in the region has come under question as sea ice retreat reveals open waters. This thesis examines the question of how are the present and the prospective future of shipping in the Canadian Arctic managed and governed. I situate my work in the fields of critical polar studies, anticipatory geographies, and Arctic geopolitics. I use expert interviews with policy makers in Transport Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Environment Canada, the Canadian Ice Service, the Government of Nunavut’s Department of Economic Development and Transportation, along with perspectives from officials at the World Wildlife Fund and the Centre for the North to answer these questions. I argue that the perception and anticipation of a well–managed and well–supported maritime space guides the actions of Canadian officials. Officials view shipping as a holistic activity where meaningful government intervention is limited. I further argue that the logic of prevention is most useful in understanding policy makers’ activities in this forum, and the effective presence in the region through management and support of shipping demonstrates the Canadian state’s sovereignty. Canada is at the forefront of regulations, support, and techniques to manage and support shipping in the Arctic, offering a perspective on present shipping, and how anticipating future shipping has shaped actions of the domestic agencies, the Arctic Council, and the International Maritime Organization.
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Lekhavat, Saowanit. "Managerial rules for recovering from a disruption event in liner shipping." Thesis, Brunel University, 2019. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/17564.

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The aim of this study is to propose managerial rules for recovering from a disruption event in liner shipping. A critical realism philosophy is adopted in the design of the research. Optimisation and an experimental methodology which follows the critical realism paradigm is used as a framework. Particle swarm optimisation (PSO) is an optimisation model in which various rules are implemented to search for the optimal option to recover from a disruption problem. Solution representations for two options, speeding up and skipping, have been designed. A case study of a trans- Pacific route is used to generate novelty in the model under various configurations of degrees of disruption, maximum speeds, fuel prices, time windows and skipping penalties. The results show that the skipping option performs better than the speeding up option when there is a large amount of delay. The port skipping option is more valuable when the maximum speed limit of a vessel is low. The option of port skipping saves more total cost than the option of speeding up when fuel prices increase. Particularly, a vessel which applies the skipping option can save more total cost than one which applies the speeding option when there are high fuel prices and high degrees of disruption. In other words, speeding up is recommended in the case of low fuel prices and low degrees of disruption. The speeding option is recommended when a vessel faces a short delay and has a long time window. In contrast, the skipping option is more valuable when there is a long delay and a short time window. The higher the skipping delay penalties, the more valuable the speeding option is.

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Tarver, Sean. "The recruitment strategies of the United Kingdom's shore-side maritime industries." Thesis, Southampton Solent University, 2001. http://ssudl.solent.ac.uk/1225/.

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In the last ten years there has been increasing concern about the drop in numbers of experienced British merchant ship officers. This short fall in manpower will have serious repercussions on the recruitment strategy of United Kingdom shore-based shipping support organisations. These employers have relied upon a supply of former ships' officers to recruit into various key jobs. Research has shown that demand is expected to exceed suppy, and there has been much debate concerning a solution to the problem. This thesis is an analysis of the shore-side maritime industry's recruitment strategy in the light of this forecast shortage of experienced ships' officers. It aims to make a substantial conribution to the debate concerning recruitment pre-requisites into the industry and increase understanding of the reasons why employers prefer to recruit former ships' officers. There are two 'strands' in this thesis. First of all this work provides a broad, qualitative analysis of the situation. It focuses upon the recruitment of seafarers into the shore-based maritime industry, the supply of and demand for seafarers and the reasons for their decline in numbers. The work uses data that has been generated on the maritime labour market to argue that the industry needs to train non-seafarers for certain key jobs instead of recruiting former officers. Theories and concepts originating from experts on skill shortages are used to show that the industry is unlikely to react in time to the shortage to prevent wider damage to the UK's maritime sector. Therefore this work supports the idea that non-seafarer training schemes are feasible for some types of work, and also need to be supported by the State in order to preserve the pool of experienced officers. Secondly, the arguments put forward by employers and employee bodies areanalysed to ascertain why they believe it is necessary that former seafarers have to be employed to carry out certain key jobs. This work also argues that there are other reasons besides those given as to why employers do not see the training of non-seafarers as a good alternative. The situation in the industry is tested against two models of 'professional power'. A new model of professionalism was created in order to develop understanding of how and why maritime occupational groups try to exclude non-seafarers from shore-based marine related work. It concluded that there is a mobilisation of bias within the sector against non-seafarers entering an industry that predominantly favours of those who have ships' officer experience

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Traill, Andrew D. "An evaluation of maritime barge systems in north west Europe." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337518.

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Chan, Amanda Cho Man. "Dispute resolution clauses in BIMCO standard shipping forms." access abstract and table of contents access full-text, 2006. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/ezdb/dissert.pl?ma-slw-b21843053a.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2006.
"Dissertation submitted as part requirement for the degree of Master of Arts in arbitration and dispute resolution of the School of Law of the City University of Hong Kong" Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on May 22, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.

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Della, Croce Maria Clara. "The EC Common Commercial Policy : its application to the external commercial relations in maritime transport services." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307285.

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Metaparti, Satya Prakash. "Maritime security after 9/11: the shipping industry's response to the terrorist threat." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29950697.

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Panchapakesan, Ashwin. "Optimizing Shipping Container Damage Prediction and Maritime Vessel Service Time in Commercial Maritime Ports Through High Level Information Fusion." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39593.

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The overwhelming majority of global trade is executed over maritime infrastructure, and port-side optimization problems are significant given that commercial maritime ports are hubs at which sea trade routes and land/rail trade routes converge. Therefore, optimizing maritime operations brings the promise of improvements with global impact. Major performance bottlenecks in maritime trade process include the handling of insurance claims on shipping containers and vessel service time at port. The former has high input dimensionality and includes data pertaining to environmental and human attributes, as well as operational attributes such as the weight balance of a shipping container; and therefore lends itself to multiple classification method- ologies, many of which are explored in this work. In order to compare their performance, a first-of-its-kind dataset was developed with carefully curated attributes. The performance of these methodologies was improved by exploring metalearning techniques to improve the collective performance of a subset of these classifiers. The latter problem formulated as a schedule optimization, solved with a fuzzy system to control port-side resource deployment; whose parameters are optimized by a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm which outperforms current industry practice (as mined from real-world data). This methodology has been applied to multiple ports across the globe to demonstrate its generalizability, and improves upon current industry practice even with synthetically increased vessel traffic.

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Bertho, Fabien. "The impact of liner shipping trade and competition regulations on the market structure, maritime transport costs and seaborne trade flows." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2012. http://spire.sciences-po.fr/hdl:/2441/7o52iohb7k6srk09mit038srm.

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J’évalue l’impact des réglementations commerciales et concurrentielles dans transport maritime de ligne sur la structure du marché, les coûts de transport et le commerce maritime. D’abord, je quantifie le niveau global des Barrières Commerciales (BC) dans le secteur du transport maritime de ligne en construisant un Indice de Restriction du Commerce des Services (IRCS). Cet indicateur est inclus dans une analyse économétrique en deux étapes. Les BC sont susceptibles d’influencer le commerce maritime à travers les Coûts de Transport Maritime (CTM). Ainsi, j’évalue l'impact des BC sur les CTM, puis l'impact des CTM sur le commerce maritime. Je montre que les BC ont un impact positif sur les CTM et que les CTM ont un impact négatif sur le commerce maritime. Ainsi, les BC ont un impact indirect négatif sur le commerce maritime. Je montre aussi qu’en plus d’affecter négativement le commerce maritime à travers les CTM, la distance a un impact positif direct sur le commerce maritime. Ensuite, j’évalue l'impact des barrières réglementaires à l'entrée sur la structure du marché et les CTM. D’abord, j’évalue l'impact de la réglementation sur la structure du marché. Puis, j’évalue l'impact de la structure du marché sur les CTM. Je montre que la présence de conférences maritimes n’a pas d’impact sur le nombre de compagnies sur les routes alors que la présence d'accords de discussion a un impact positif. De plus, lorsqu’elles atteignent un seuil, les BC ont un impact négatif sur le nombre de compagnies. En outre, je montre les BC affectent les CTM à travers la structure du marché et les coûts marginaux. Enfin, je montre que les compagnies maritimes de ligne exercent un pouvoir de marché
This dissertation aims at assessing the impact of liner shipping trade and competition regulations on the market structure, prices, and seaborne trade flows. To quantify the overall level of trade restrictions in the liner shipping sector, I construct an original Service Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI). The original STRI is included in a two-stage econometric analysis. Since barriers to trade are likely to influence seaborne trade through maritime transport costs (MTCs), in a first stage, I assess the impact of trade restrictions on MTCs. And, in a second stage I assess the impact of MTCs on seaborne trade flows. I show that barriers to trade affect positively MTCs and that MTCs affect negatively seaborne trade flows. Thus, barriers to trade have an indirect and negative impact on seaborne trade flows. Furthermore, I show that distance affects positively MTCs. The results also suggest that besides affecting negatively seaborne trade through MTCs, distance affect directly and positively seaborne trade. I assess the impact of regulatory barriers to entry on the market structure and MTCs. In a first stage, I assess the impact of regulations on the market structure. In a second stage, I assess the impact of the market structure on MTCs. I show that the presence of maritime conferences does not affect the number of carriers on routes while the presence of discussion agreements does. Moreover, when they reach a critical level, barriers to trade limit the number of carriers. Furthermore, I show barriers to trade affect MTCs through the market structure and marginal costs. Finally, I show that shipping exercise a market power even though this effect is small

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Břečková, Pavlína. "Námořní kontejnerová přeprava v podmínkách společnosti Vasco Shipping." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-75724.

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This diploma thesis analyzes the maritime container transport, it's history and development and the types of containers. It deals with the current situation in the maritime transport market. The main emphasis is on detailed description of the transport chain. The paper also deals with documents that are carried by sea, especially the Bill of Lading. This is a specific document, among other it is a tradable security. In the thesis there have also been mentioned the current issues of liability and insurance - (Rotterdam Rules and INCOTERMS 2010).

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Cross, Stephen J. "The application of high quality maritime simulator training to improve safety and economy in shipping operations." Thesis, Southampton Solent University, 2009. http://ssudl.solent.ac.uk/1754/.

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Statistics of maritime casualties continue to be the driver of improvement of human performance or rather reduction of human error. Still, too many accidents occur and some can be traced back to the lack of proper training and the lack of certain required skills and competences of the seafarer. One possible means of performance improvement is envisaged to come from (additional) high quality training, using maritime simulator systems. If so, (additional) costs will occur. But if the amount of the increased costs of training is less than the funds to be saved by avoiding accidents, it will justify that such trainig efforts should take place. The overall objective of this thesis is thus to demonstrate how and by how much, well structured, high quality, maritime simulator training can positively influence the safety and economic efficiency of shipping operations. This requires a description of the education and training efforts, simulator applications, human error catagories, performance improvement and the costing and comparison of these various items. The main and novel research efforts will be to determine what percentage performance improvement can be achieved with high quality simulator training. This is done by observations of groups of simulator trainees during various and multiple types of exercises. When the simulator training is performed in the structured manner as described, it should lead to an improved performance and thus a reduction of the number of maritime accidents by an appreciable percentage. The overall result when implemented, could then be that shipping operations become both safer and economically more efficient. As this is usually seen as a contradiction, in which safety is regarded to cost money and economy to generate money this initiative would indeed be worthwhile.

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Papageorgiou, Dimitri Jason. "Optimization in maritime inventory routing." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/50117.

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The primary aim of this thesis is to develop effective solution techniques for large-scale maritime inventory routing problems that possess a core substructure common in many real-world applications. We use the term “large-scale” to refer to problems whose standard mixed-integer linear programming (MIP) formulations involve tens of thousands of binary decision variables and tens of thousands of constraints and require days to solve on a personal computer. Although a large body of literature already exists for problems combining vehicle routing and inventory control for road-based applications, relatively little work has been published in the realm of maritime logistics. A major contribution of this research is in the advancement of novel methods for tackling problems orders of magnitude larger than most of those considered in the literature. Coordinating the movement of massive vessels all around the globe to deliver large quantities of high value products is a challenging and important problem within the maritime transportation industry. After introducing a core maritime inventory routing model to aid decision-makers with their coordination efforts, we make three main contributions. First, we present a two-stage algorithm that exploits aggregation and decomposition to produce provably good solutions to complex instances with a 60-period (two-month) planning horizon. Not only is our solution approach different from previous methods discussed in the maritime transportation literature, but computational experience shows that our approach is promising. Second, building on the recent successes of approximate dynamic programming (ADP) for road-based applications, we present an ADP procedure to quickly generate good solutions to maritime inventory routing problems with a long planning horizon of up to 365 periods. For instances with many ports (customers) and many vessels, leading MIP solvers often require hours to produce good solutions even when the planning horizon is limited to 90 periods. Our approach requires minutes. Our algorithm operates by solving many small subproblems and, in so doing, collecting and learning information about how to produce better solutions. Our final research contribution is a polyhedral study of an optimization problem that was motivated by maritime inventory routing, but is applicable to a more general class of problems. Numerous planning models within the chemical, petroleum, and process industries involve coordinating the movement of raw materials in a distribution network so that they can be blended into final products. The uncapacitated fixed-charge transportation problem with blending (FCTPwB) that we study captures a core structure encountered in many of these environments. We model the FCTPwB as a mixed-integer linear program and derive two classes of facets, both exponential in size, for the convex hull of solutions for the problem with a single consumer and show that they can be separated in polynomial time. Finally, a computational study demonstrates that these classes of facets are effective in reducing the integrality gap and solution time for more general instances of the FCTPwB.

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Donovan, Adrian. "Has the Ship Sailed? The Changing Roles after World War II of Domestic Water Transport in the Island Nations of Britain and Japan." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19330.

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Britain and Japan, fellow island nations, share many geographical similarities, and accordingly both societies have long taken advantage of water transport domestically. In modern times the two nations’ governments have diverged in terms of philosophies toward economy and industrialization. Britain is known as today’s consummate private-industry advocate within western Europe, while Japan is noted for the strong level of government “guidance” in its post-WWII economy. Using the abovementioned similarities as a baseline, this thesis examines how the supposedly different relationships between government and economy in Britain and Japan have affected the ongoing use of water in their domestic transport sectors since World War II. Some forms of water transport have continued to thrive commercially in both nations, due primarily to those forms’ inherent economic and technical advantages, while other water transport modes are maintained through government support because of other, less commercial benefits they offer to the two societies.

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Šlechta, Miroslav. "Specifika pobřežní námořní přepravy a její využití jako alternativy ke kamionové přepravě." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-192976.

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The goal of the thesis is to find out wether it's possible to consider short sea shipping as an adequate alternative to trucking. The thesis describes the specifics of Short Sea Shipping and its main maritime route. It also compares the advantages and disadvantages of short sea shipping and truck transportation. Furthermore the thesis assesses their economical aspects and the potential risks associated with these means of transport. The conclusion of the thesis recommends the suitable routes and comes up with other circumstances that should be considered while using Short Sea Shipping as a trucking alternative.

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Hugar, Wayne R. "The Sea Dragon Network : implications of the international expansion of China's Maritime shipping industry." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1998. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA349639.

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Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs) Naval Postgraduate School, June 1998.
"June 1998." Thesis advisor(s): Robert E. Looney, Mary P. Callahan. Includes bibliographical references (p. 105). Also available online.

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Konsta, Katerina. "Maritime policy and the success of nations : the case of Greek-flagged ocean shipping." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/10142.

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In an era that national flags are dying off (Sletmo 2001) there is no dispute about the success of Greek flagged shipping. How can a small nation like Greece retain the highest percentage of all national fleets? Literature identifies that this success is due to several reasons. However, what are the elements that contribute to the success of Greek-flagged shipping? This study establishes that ‘the success of Greek ocean-going flagged shipping is a blend of a tendency for governments to experiment with various policies intended to promote national competitiveness, individual entrepreneurship, the cluster as well as culture, knowledge and skill’. Litrature from different disciplines and sources are summarised, compared, contrasted, and synthesised in order to develop a coherent outcome and gain a new perspective in the respective field. Since “policy is like beauty in the eye of the beholder…” (Roe 2007c) a multilevel, holistic, exploratory, inductive, deductive, abductive, and overall pragmatic methodological approach is considered, as the only viable option for complex research questions related to maritime policy. A three-method approach is applied with every method contributing to each other: the Timeline A to Ω and Literature Analysis, Delphi Method, and the Application of Porter’s diamond on national competitiveness. The belief that traditional flags are dying off, implies that they are not dead yet. The Greek Registry, and every ship registry is a system of people, organisations , and processes and it is that system that contributes to the success of the flag. Contrary to the belief of some players, government policy affects the size and the quality of the national flag ocean-going fleet undertaking various polices intented to promote national competitiveness. This study contributes to academic knowledge as well as to the Greek and any other registry’s competitiveness, as well as to the govenemental decision making and development of maritime policies. Recommendations are made for the Greek flag and the maritime policy, as well as for the application of the GREKON MODEL to the real maritime world and academia.

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Bayley-Craig, Lisa. "To What Extent Has Progress Been Made by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) In Reducing CO2 Emissions from Global Shipping?" Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/40453.

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90% of global trade is transported by cargo ships, with fossil fuel being the dominant energy source used. As global trade increases, shipping will be in greater demand resulting in increased emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants negatively impacting the environment and human health. Carbon dioxide (CO2), our area of interest, is the number one contributing gas to global warming. We, therefore, examine the role of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in reducing CO2 emissions from shipping, and determine the progress made so far. Our research reveals that progress in this area is on a slow trajectory. The current IMO regulations focus solely on energy efficiency measures that do not appear to be as successful as envisioned in reducing CO2 emissions. In addition, the concept of decarbonization of the sector, which would lead to zero emissions, is delayed. With this in mind, we provide recommendations regarding future IMO actions.

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Jankowski, William M. "Maritime shipping container security and the Defense Transportation System : problems and policy in the 21st century /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2003. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/03Jun%5FJankowski.pdf.

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Nawaz, Raja Rab. "Maritime strategy in Pakistan." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2004. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/04Dec%5FNawaz.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Stabilization and Reconstruction))--Naval Postgraduate School, Dec. 2004.
Thesis advisor(s): Peter R. Lavoy, Robert E. Looney. Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-108). Also available online.

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Meitmann, Carl Anton. "Enforcing the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 : A study of the early results of implementation and enforcement of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Sjöfartshögskolan (SJÖ), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-49913.

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The objectives of the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (hereafter: MLC 2006) have long been familiar to many states, but for some it has brought with it increased expectations in improving working conditions for seafarers. This study aims to analyse the early figures provided by Paris Memorandum of Understanding’s (hereafter: Paris MoU) on the number of deficiencies and detentions in before and after the implementation of the MLC 2006, as well as the ILO Committee of Experts 2014 Report, which marks the first full year of MLC 2006 compliance in the first ratifying states. The purpose was to provide an early report on the progress of the MLC 2006 to date as well as how it has adapted to concerns expressed by experts in maritime law prior to its implementation. Even if it has not been long enough since the entry into force to properly identify a trend, it is interesting to see a positive start to the MLC 2006, which has received rapidly increasing attention, and that awareness of labour rights has increased in the maritime industry. Figures also revealed that the early result is at least not a decrease in the number of reported deficiencies. In addition, the fact that a number of detentions have been issued is worthy of note, as they were very rare in the labour context before the MLC 2006.

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Ward, Robin McGregor. "The 'mystery' of the medieval shipmaster : the English shipmaster at law, in business and at sea between the mid-fourteenth and mid-fifteenth centuries." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369792.

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Lárusson, Erik. "Maritime security in the High North : Swedish and Icelandic responses to new Arctic shipping opportunities." Thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-5707.

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The purpose of this study is to compare how the issue of new shipping opportunities in theArctic region is tackled and met by the governments of Sweden and Iceland when it comes tomaritime security regime building, and to set this into perspective by looking at the shippingindustry’s seemed aspirations and interests for Arctic shipping, the latter to see if policy and“reality” appear to be corresponding. By conducting a qualitative comparative analysisthrough studying previous research, government documents and through interviewingrepresentatives from the shipping industry; using the analytical framework of Regime Theoryfor International Relations; the following research questions have been answered:

- In what ways do the governments of Sweden and Iceland contribute to developments of Arctic maritimesecurity regimes, due to new shipping opportunities in the High North?

- Are these contributions in line with the shipping industry’s views of and aspirations for Arctic shipping?

- (How) does this differ between the countries?

- (How) does the shipping industry contribute to maritime security?

Sweden and Iceland differ in many aspects, but the general aims at environmental protectionare visible in both countries. Iceland has a larger focus on crisis response due to its locationalexposure and do moreover have a chance on economically exploiting new shipping activitiesfor the same reason. Sweden can be said to have a more general approach to Arctic maritimesecurity, whereas Iceland rather focuses on its own proximity.Both countries’ responses to Arctic shipping are currently to be seen as in line with theshipping industry’s views and aspirations for Arctic shipping.The shipping industry contributes to maritime security by developing new methods andtechnology for addressing the Arctic ice; collectively and on shipping company individualbasis. The shipping industry furthermore contributes by educating ship commanders as well assharing experiences and knowledge with each other.

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Hartnett, Luke(Luke S. ). "Analyzing the feasibility of lithium-ion batteries to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in Maritime shipping." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127925.

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Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, May, 2020
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The International Maritime Organization aims to reduce CO2 emissions in the shipping industry by 50% by 2050. One of the methods for meeting this goal is to electrify ships with lithium-ion batteries. A 14-ship sample was analyzed to determine the feasibility of installing lithium-ion batteries onto modern-day vessels. The two feasibility constraints that guided this discussion were mass and volume of the necessary battery system. Results show that the mass of the battery pack was well within the current mass of engine rooms, but the volume required was often too high. In order to compensate for this, an increase in the estimate of energy density improved the number of trips made possible by lithium-ion batteries. When coupled with increases in depth of discharge and the volume available for the system in the engine room, 11 out of 14 vessels could complete at least one trip with one charge of the battery. This corresponded to about 48% of the total miles travelled by all 14 ships. Hybrid vessels could be deployed to test out the technology, but eventually moving to lithium-ion battery technology could come close to reducing emissions by 50% under the right parameters.
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S.B.
S.B. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Wong, Yin-cheung Eugene, and 黃彥璋. "A hybrid evolutionary algorithm for optimization of maritime logisticsoperations." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B44526763.

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Voudouris, Ioannis. "Maritime transport properties and competition law issues : partial function cooperation agreements in liner and tramp shipping." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2012. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/8764.

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The thesis deals with selected competition issues that occur within the dynamic and high-risk market of shipping, examining competition law issues in liner consortia and tramp pools through an EU Competition Law prism. These partial function joint ventures are the predominant form of alliances in the maritime sector. Liner trade is primarily organised in consortia, while pools are the most common form of tramp shipping alliance. The thesis' synthetic and analytic research incorporates the methodology and structure used in its competition law bibliography, while the legal analysis is informed with sources from microeconomics and maritime economics. The issues that are examined in relation to shipping include the four main areas of competition law: the relevant market, indicators of dominance, compliance of the alliance agreements with Article 101 TFEU and abusive conducts by dominant undertakings under Article 102 TFEU. The development of the above areas aims to demonstrate the interaction of sector particularities with competition law as a whole.

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Turner, Grace Sandrena Rosita. "Bahamian ship graffiti." Texas A&M University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/1339.

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The Bahamian archipelago covers over 5,000 square miles of the Atlantic Ocean at the northwestern edge of the Caribbean Sea. In the Age of Sail, from the late 15th to early 20th centuries, these islands were on major sailing routes between the Caribbean, Central America, and Europe. Bahamians developed life-ways using their islands location to their advantage. Archaeological evidence of the significance of shipping activity is quite lacking. This research aimed to help fill the void by documenting examples of ship graffiti throughout the Bahamas. Examples of ship graffiti were documented with photographs and tracings. The Bahamian examples all date to the 19th and 20th centuries, 100 years later than other examples from the Caribbean and North America. They are also unique in being incised into the stone surfaces of building walls, caves, stones on a hillside, even on a slate fragment. It is possible that ship graffiti were also engraved on wooden surfaces but these have not survived in the archaeological record. Images depict locally-built vessels such as sloops and schooners as well as larger, ocean-going vessels. Ship graffiti are at sites associated mainly with people of African heritage, another possible social grouping being persons of lower economic status. Graffiti details consistently indicate that the artists were familiar with ship construction and rigging. This analysis of ship graffiti gives some understanding of the significance of ships and shipping in the Bahamian economy.

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Branchini, Rodrigo Moretti 1975. "Fleet deployment optimization in liner shipping = Otimização do dimensionamento e roteamento de navios de linha regular com viagens fretadas." [s.n.], 2013. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/261180.

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Orientador: Vinícius Amaral Armentano
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação
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Resumo: Este trabalho aborda um problema de planejamento tático em empresas de transporte marítimo de carga que coletam e entregam as demandas contratadas por seus clientes. As viagens associadas a estas demandas são obrigatórias, mas a empresa pode também atender a demandas spot associadas com viagens opcionais para aumentar seu lucro durante um horizonte de tempo de médio prazo. O problema de otimização é formulado como um modelo de programação inteira mista que é definido em um grafo orientado em que nós representam viagens obrigatórias e opcionais. As decisões do modelo são determinar o número e tipo de navios que compõem a frota, designar um navio a um conjunto de viagens obrigatórias e opcionais, definir as rotas de cada navio e estipular os tempos de início de atendimento nos portos para cada viagem. Um algoritmo de busca tabu com uma lista de candidatos e um conjunto de soluções de elite são propostos para resolver instâncias do problema. Os resultados computacionais da busca tabu são comparados com as soluções ótimas e sub-ótimas encontradas pelo CPLEX para o modelo de programação inteira mista
Abstract: We address a tactical planning problem faced by many liner shipping companies that have committed contractual voyages while trying to serve optional spot voyages to increase its revenue over the medium-term horizon. The optimization problem is formulated as a mixed integer programming model that is defined on a directed graph whose nodes represent contractual and spot voyages. The decisions include the number and type of vessels deployed the assignment of vessels to contractual and spot voyages and the determination of vessel routes and schedules in order to maximize the profit. A tabu search algorithm with a candidate list and a pool of elite and diverse solutions is proposed in order to solve a set of benchmark instances of the problem. The results obtained by tabu search are compared to optimal and suboptimal solutions yielded by the CPLEX solver to the mixed integer programming formulation of the problem
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Winter, Peter J. "The role of the U.S. Navy in support of the national strategy for maritime security." Carlisle Barracks, Pa. : U.S. Army War College, 2006. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA449645.

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Thesis (M. of Strategic Studies)--U.S. Army War College, 2006.
Cover title. "15 MAR 2006"--Tech. report doc. page. Includes bibliographical references (p. 15-17). Full text document available on public STINET.

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Cronje, Riaan. "A description of maritime safety in South Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51563.

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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2000.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The increasing financial pressures exerted on ship owners in recent years due to cost inflation, overtonnage and low freight rates in many sectors, have forced ship owners to increase cost savings and contain costs. That induced certain shipowners to operate substandard ships. The cost advantages in substandard ships are through failing to maintain safety equipment and procedures, employing cheap and untrained crews, repairing only essential equipment on breakdown and register under flags that do not comply with all the international regulatory, economic and social requirements for ships. Those ships undercut the true costs of operating a ship and eventually drive the obedient shipowner out of the market at the cost of safe and clean seas. Because of the complex international environment in which shipping operates an international regulatory framework is needed to ensure safety at sea. This assignment gives a layout of that framework, which is co-ordinated by the International Maritime Organisation (!MO), as well as the ways in which it is implemented and regulated in individual countries, with reference to South Africa. The functioning of the South African Maritime Safety Agency (SAMSA), which has been established on 1 April 1998, is also discussed. The benefit of safe ports is highlighted and also the cost savings in marine insurance if ships are classified as safe. A brief description of the navigation instruments that SAMSA use to assist in achieving maritime safety is given. Finally, the diseconomies of substandard ships are debated against quality ships for cleaner seas.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die toenemende finansiële druk op skeepseienaars, as gevolg van koste inflasie, oortonnemaat en lae vragtariewe in verskeie sektore, het hulle gedwing om oor die laaste aantal jare hul kostes te beperk. Gedwonge kostebesparings gee aanleiding daartoe dat sekere skeepseienaars onveilige skepe bedryf. Kostevoordele in onveilige skepe word bereik deur veiligheidstoerusting en -prosedures nie in stand te hou nie, goedkoop en onopgeleide bemanning aan te stel, slegs die nodige herstelwerk aan toerusting te doen en deur te registreer onder vlae wat nie voldoen aan internasionale regulering, ekonomiese en sosiale vereistes vir skepe nie. Eienaars van sulke skepe, onderskruip die ware bedryfskoste van 'n skip en uiteindelik dryf dit die wetsgetroue skeepseienaars uit die mark ten koste van 'n veilige en skoon see. As gevolg van die komplekse internasionale omgewmg waann skeepvaart funksioneer, word 'n internasionale reguleringsraamwerk benodig om veiligheid ter see te verseker. Hierdie werkstuk gee 'n uitleg van daardie raamwerk, wat gekoordineer word deur die Internasionale Maritieme Organisasie (!MO), asook die manier waarop dit geïmplementeer en gereguleer word in individuele lande met verwysing tot Suid-Afrika. Die funksionering van die Suid-Afrikaanse Maritieme Veiligheids Agentskap (SAMSA), wat tot stand gebring is op 1 April 1998, word bespreek. Die voordele van veilige hawens word uitgelig, sowel as die besparings in maritieme versekeringskoste indien 'n skip as veilig geklassifiseer word. 'n Kort beskrywing van navigasie-instrumente wat SAMSA gebruik om maritieme veiligheid te bewerkstellig, word kortliks bespreek. Ten slotte, die dis-ekonomie van onveilige skepe word gedebateer teenoor die kwaliteit van skepe vir 'n skoner see.

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Cai, Sixing, and 蔡思行. "One country, two systems: shipping and maritime customs affairs in Hong Kong and Guangdong Province (1897-1910)." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B50218803.

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Pelegrin, Alvarez Lorena. "Teamwork phenomena : exploring path dependency and learning in teams during architectural design of sustainable maritime shipping systems." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118531.

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Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program, 2018.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-134).
The systems that we are attempting to build today are becoming increasingly complex, as we ask for more function, more performance, more robustness, more flexibility, and more interconnectedness. At the same time, design and implementation of these systems is becoming a highly collaborative process across countries, cultures and goals, driving an increase of interfaces, interaction, and concurrency of work, ultimately adding complexity to the way teams work. In the face of both increased product complexity and organizational complexity, project teams need to be equipped with processes and tools that enhance their individuals' and collective cognitive abilities. Recent developments in social science research about teamwork indicate that individual intelligence, personality, or skill, matter less than the pattern of idea flow in a team: the characteristics of higher performing groups are a large number of ideas, dense interactions, and diversity of ideas. Also, this body of research argues that the number of opportunities for social learning is often the largest single factor in company productivity. Social learning is learning happens when people learn from one another. How is this body of research relevant to engineering design teams? Can we think about social learning happening in multi-stakeholder, design workshops? What are the signals of social learning in such settings? Can we detect those signals and find patterns? This thesis project has initiated the development of a new class of teamwork experiments concerned with exploring the dynamics of engineering teams during the early stages of architecture selection in design of complex systems. In contrast to much of the teamwork research available, this class of teamwork research is model-based: teams engage in a design activity supported by a system of systems model of the problem, and product subject of design. Moreover, these series of experiments implement novel software user interfaces that include interactive visualization and passive collection of socio-metric data regarding design and experience. This research has been developed on a case study from the Japanese commercial maritime shipping industry in response to the new revision of IMO MARPOL Annex VI requirements setting limits on sulphur oxides and nitrous oxides emissions from ship exhausts. According to Japanese authorities, it is expected that the transition from the currently predominant use of Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) to Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) will proceed, and LNG-fueled ships have already launched in part of North America and Europe where emissions control is advanced. In this transition, different stakeholders (incl. shipping operators, ship building companies, cargo owners, port operators, fuel suppliers, regulatory bodies and classification societies) might follow different strategies in order to fulfill these new regulatory requirements, and the associated choices will be in trade-off with other technology and business requirements. The design problem that teams face in this series of teamwork experiments consists in modifying a reference crude oil shipping system involving a tankers' fleet composed of Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs), currently fueled with HFO and transporting crude oil from a supply port in the Persian Gulf to a delivery port in Japan. The design goal is to reduce SOx emissions and NOx emissions, while fulfilling shipping contracts, at the lowest possible cost. In the teamwork design challenge proposed, individuals representing various stakeholders and teams consider, enumerate, and evaluate feasible system architectures according to pre-defined system goals and performance metrics in a tradespace, whereby the Pareto frontier of non-dominated architectures is sought, and a set of preferred architectures is selected. During the design process, data is collected about key teamwork phenomena, such as attention allocation, decision, and learning. This series of experiments has been developed and piloted in collaboration with University of Tokyo and a committee of Japanese maritime shipping professionals over four workshop sessions between October 2017 and March 2018 at University of Tokyo in Kashiwa-no-ha (Japan), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). The pilot experimentation tested and rehearsed, between others, the viability of different versions of the design case, and the feasibility of proposed sensors for capturing teamwork phenomena. The pilot experimentation phase also served for prototyping the computer simulator that implements the system of systems model and the interactive visualization software user interface. The main experiment took place at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). For the specific domain problem and solution set explored in these experiments, the results support the claim that higher-performing teams explore more options, analyze options from more viewpoints, and learn more, than lower performing teams. The experimental results also suggest that those teams with clear goals, learn more. This thesis project has also demonstrated that it is possible to sense and visualize learning cycles, including surprises (events that trigger reflection and reframing), as well as path-dependent sequences (course of action or moves) that lead a team to decision in the selection of a best option. Furthermore, it has been observed that social learning in diverse teams can be facilitated with computerized interactive visualization tools. These results suggest an enormous potential for "engineering" high-performance design teams at the meso-scale with collaborative machine-human systems. More pilots in industry cases could provide more data to support/ refute this proposition, and gradually transition into a more social and productive engineering experience for teams.
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Monteil, Leslie. "L'application des conventions internationales de droit maritime en droit français." Thesis, Paris 1, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA01D008/document.

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Les conventions internationales sont adoptées par des organisations internationales dans le but d’imposer des règles uniformes dans un domaine spécifique. L’intégration du droit international dans l’ordre juridique de chacun des États parties dépend de la méthode choisie par leur propre droit national. En France, les conventions internationales de droit maritime occupent une place particulière qui leur permet d’avoir leurs dispositions directement invocables par les particuliers. Elles jouissent également d’une grande autorité lorsqu’elles sont reprises par les normes de l’Union européenne produisant des effets contraignants à l’égard des États membres. Le statut de la convention internationale au sein de l’ordre juridique français garantit la pleine effectivité des mesures qu’elle contient, sous réserve que leurs dispositions soient pleinement mises en œuvre par les tribunaux. Le juge aura alors un rôle fondamental dans l’application des conventions internationales puisqu’il pourra influencer sur les effets de ces normes internationales et choisir de participer à l’unification du droit. Mais il sera également tributaire de certaines contraintes inhérentes à l’adoption d’un acte de droit international, ce qui limitera les espoirs d’unification des règles de droit applicables en matière maritime
The main purpose of the international organization when adopting an international convention is to provide uniform rules for specific fields. The incorporation of international regulation into the legal system of States parties depends on the national laws. In France, the monism system leads to the possibility for every claimant to invoke the provisions of the treaties to support their claim. The authority of international maritime convention has increased when the EU regulation implemented them in EU system which implies that States members are obliged to comply with them. The legal status of international convention in the national French legal system guarantees the enforcement of their own provisions, provided that they are duly applied by the national Courts. The judge will have a significant impact in the enforcement of a treaty. His ruling can improve the unification of international law. However, the judge will be subject to some constraints that may threaten the aim of unification of applicable rules in the shipping law

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Cousin, Justine. "Extra-European Seamen employed by British Imperial Shipping Companies (1860-1960)." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL135.

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Cette thèse étudie les marins non-européens travaillant sur les navires à vapeur des compagnies maritimes britanniques desservant l’empire de la Grande-Bretagne, à partir d’archives métropolitaines et coloniales, mais aussi de témoignages oraux. Ces sources sont étudiées avec une approche d’histoire impériale, maritime, sociale et du travail. Les marins extra-européens viennent des Caraïbes, du sous-continent indien, de la péninsule arabique, d’Afrique de l’Est et de l’Ouest. Ils occupent des postes peu ou pas qualifiés dans les trois départements du bord, justifiés par des caractéristiques pseudo-scientifiques établissant une hiérarchie des origines. Leur recrutement est justifié leur faible coût salarial et de leurs horaires de travail étendus en comparaison de leurs collègues britanniques. Les postes de commandement étant réservés aux Blancs, les marins de couleur sont confinés à un rôle de subordonnés. Ces derniers subissent une ségrégation touchant leur logement et leur avitaillement, mais aussi leurs uniformes, contribuant à les mettre à part sur les navires à vapeur. Le recrutement des marins extra-européens se développe massivement à partir de 1849 avant de connaitre des restrictions à partir de 1905 et surtout de l’entre-deux-guerres. Certains s’installent dans les quartiers portuaires dans des environnement multi-ethniques, souvent dégradés et à l’écart du reste de la ville. Ils restent alors dans des pensions qui servent d’entre-deux culturel ou bien sont pris en charge par les missionnaires locaux. Certains s’installent dans leur propre logement et établissent des relations avec les femmes blanches, ce qui suscite périodiquement l’hostilité des hommes locaux
This dissertation studies extra-European seamen who worked on steamships of the British shipping companies throughout the British Empire, by using metropolitan and colonial archives as well as oral history testimonies. These sources are studied with an imperial, maritime, labour and social history approaches. Extra-European seamen came from the Caribbean, the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian peninsula, Eastern and Western Africa. They were hired for unskilled or low-skilled positions in the three shipboard departments, based on pseudoscientific characteristics which created racial hierarchies. They were chosen over their British counterparts, as they cost less and worked more hours aboard. Tbey were subordinated to white officers, as non-white seamen could not get a senior position. Their accommodation and food rations both reflected work division and racial segregation, as they had specific and lower living quarters and food. They were also set apart with their dedicated uniforms. Extra-European seamen are massively recruited from 1849 onwards until further restrictions from 1905 and the interwar years especially. Some of them settled in interracial dockside areas, which were often run-down, overpopulated and physically segregated from the rest of the city. They may stay in boarding-houses that acted as buffers between native and metropolitan cultures or be taken in charge by the local missionaries. Some of them settled in their own houses and began interracial relationships with local white women, which periocally arouse hostility from the local white men

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Peel, Samantha. "The development of the bill of lading : its future in the maritime industry." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/407.

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This Thesis will consider the development of the traditional bill of lading from its origins, which appear to be much older than previously considered, up to the present day. The development of the bill of lading will be examined in order to answer basic questions: what is a traditional bill of lading, and what functions does it perform. In Part I of the Thesis the development of the three main functions of the traditional bill will be considered, namely receipt, contract, document of title. It will conclude with observations on the nature of the traditional bill of lading and how it differs from the early form of the bill of lading. Part II of the Thesis will then consider the development and nature of related shipping documents (charterparty bills, received for shipment bills, non-transferable bills), how far these documents perform the functions of the traditional bill of lading, and whether they can be truly described as bills of lading. Part II will then go on to consider the development and nature of electronic bills of lading and assess how well such bills perform the functions of the traditional bill of lading. The Thesis will conclude that although most of the functions of the traditional bill are in effect performed by electronic bills, electronic bills are in fact a new type of bill of lading and not merely a traditional bill in an electronic format. Conclusions will then be drawn as to what effect the development of new types of bill of lading will have on the future of the traditional bill of lading in the maritime industry.

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