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"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...

A Most Fortunate Ship

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

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...

An Analysis of the Container Shipping Market

A problem with the container shipping industry is that despite an increased demand overt the last few years the capacity in the in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Tsakos Energy Navigation 2002 through 2005 Financial Performance

annual accounts. There are a number of ratios we can consider. We will start with profitability. The first ratio is the gross pr...

European Union Competition Law Application

scale, there will also be an increase in market share. However, if the market share is too great then the company may be in a domi...

A.A. Hoehling's The Fighting Liberty Ships

Navy. There, at night, one yeoman was generally assigned fly-swatting duty; here, we were not so fortunate to have surplus manpowe...

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...

Containing Shipping Operational Issues

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

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...

Marketing Report; Container Shipping in the Mediterranean

handled (ISL, 2005). However, this alone does not indicate that these are suitable ports or whether or not these are the ports tha...

French Influence Upon the Slave Trade in the Transatlantic

number of slave workers needed to supply this demand. By way of a history lesson, it should be noted that it was the Portuguese w...

United Kingdom Shipping Laws and Ownership Risk Positions

The move to non accompanied goods was also one that has created increased complexities with reference to the contract of sale and ...

A Review of the Edward Boykin Book Ghost Ship of the Confederacy

record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...

Ship of State Metaphor in Book VI of Plato's The Republic

reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...

The Greek Shipping Market

market. Countries where the shipping industry is well established and a culture of shipping exist may have an advantage, but this ...

Development of the Third World and Logistics

order to offer value-added services (UNESCAP, 2002). Finally, according to Dadzie (1998), many Third World countries (such...

Dubai's Port Importance

strongest bank in the Arab Emirates is the National Bank of Dubai, this has recently gained an A rating from standard and poor (Th...

Effects of Shipping Mergers

has not been reported on as frequently, however, at least in the mainstream press, has been mergers between shipping lines. Much o...

Shipping Industry of the Future

Now this issue demands attention especially given the global nature of shipping. Other issues also face the shipping indu...

American Trucking Industry and the Effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement

cost thousands of US jobs. None of those unions has been as successful as the Teamsters, however (No truck with free trade; NAFTA...

4 Brief Literature Essays

Pontellier, though she had married a Creole, was not thoroughly at home in the society of Creoles...There were only Creoles that s...

Case Study of an Import and Export Company

they are an underused tool. They were first put together and released by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). Their aim wa...

Analyzing the Political and Marketing Position of Danish Maersk Sealand

to make the process and the fact more efficient. The manager of one British port mused in 1991 that his port might be more attrac...