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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Civil War and the Evolution of Warfare in Terms of Naval Power

in weaponry which were unveiled during this time. The evolution of projectiles, for example, had just moved weaponry from relying...

Cruise Sector Accounting Practices

(P&O) which had been one of the most important British shipping companies that existed since the nineteenth century (Napier, 1990)...

Questions on International Law Answered

is all very clear, if the documentation is not correct that the title to the goods and the risk has not yet assed. Although it is ...

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...

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 ...

Scheherazade Suite, Opus 35 by Nicolai Rimsky Korsakov

that most closely resembles the human voice. This similarity is emphasized by the use of staccato notes, which resemble a storytel...

UK Law and Sea Carriage of Dangerous Goods

terms of damage is a confusing aspect of law. For any individual or company seeking to transport dangerous goods there is a clear ...

Cost Accounting System for an Online Business

online business unit. Management Information and Control Systems The broad framework of MIC systems includes a variety of s...

"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...

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...

Shipping Industry of the Future

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...