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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...

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...

ARAMEX

their expectations by providing global, customized logistics and information solutions rapidly, reliably and cost-effectively (Ara...

Facts and Fiction Regarding the Bermuda Triangle

In a paper consisting of five pages the region known as the Bermuda Triangle is examined in terms of the fact and fiction that sur...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Decision Making in a Small Company

Im concerned about expanding our computer technology in light of the fact that ABC is a recent new customer and our initial contra...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Liner Shipping Logistics

to another. These giant ships can carry far more cargo than those most commonly used, effectively shortening the time that liner ...

Shipping Operations and Operations Management Objectives

developed for this purpose is the transponder, also referred to as a Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) system (Kelley, 20...

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)...

Transportation and Shipping Industry and Quality Management

and more purchasers wants to see value-added services including tracking capability and forecasting demand (Anonymous, 1999). ...

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...

Implementation and Processes of Quality Management

like the implementation of a quality plan for a shipping company however, La Lopa didnt hang up his keys one day and decide to go ...

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 ...