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Sales Contracts and CIF Terms

In fourteen pages CIF contracts are discussed in terms of requirements, international shipping considerations, and termination alt...

NYC's Metropolitan Area and Shipment Transporting

In five pages this paper discusses New York City's traffic problems with a solution offered by replacing trucks with ships and tra...

"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...

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...

Ballast Water and Invasive Species

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

A Most Fortunate Ship

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

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...

Pollution and the Tourism Industry

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

The Trade of Feeder Container Ships

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

TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT AT DHL

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

Dell's Supply Chain

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

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 ...

Slave Food

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

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...

IMO's ISPS Code and International Maritime Security Issues

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

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

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

"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...

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, ...

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...

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...