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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...

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...

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...

CSX Corporation's Capital Structure

more favorable business results. Though Conrail was not as profitable as its competitors, neither was it in particularly ba...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Project: Largest Cruise Ship in World

that even with this economic downturn, the company has experienced strong pre-bookings for the cruises (Barnes, 2009). STX Finlan...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Shipping Routes via the Panama Canal

coast has established conditions wherein west coast have come to take shipping volume somewhat for granted, and as such are no lon...

Intermodal Shipping and Environmental Responsibility

In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at intermodal shipping. The emerging challenge of environmental standard compliance is...

Dumping Waste Water Policy of Cruise Ships

This essay pertains to questions that pertain to the dumping waste water policy of Caribbean cruise ships. Three pages in length, ...

Supply Chain Management and RFID Chips

chips into products or shipping pallets. In particular, the development of the Intelligent Global Pooling System, or IGPS, has ena...

It's Your Ship by Capt. D. Michael Abrashoff

This book report focuses on D. Michael Abrashoff's test It's Your Ship, which relates the leadership strategies and techniques tha...

First Men on the Moon

This essay discusses the Apollo 11 mission when Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the moon while Collins waited in the mother ship. A...

"Coastal Scene with Shipping and Cattle" by Thomas Gainsborough

This essay provides analysis of Thomas Gainsborough's "Coastal Scene with Shipping and Cattle." describing its artistic characteri...

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...

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...

Slave Food

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

Dell's Supply Chain

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

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...