International Maritime Transport (eBook, ePUB)

Perspectives
Redaktion: Leggate, Heather; Morvillo, Alfonso; McConville, James

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

International maritime transport can be analysed from a number of equally important spheres, such as geography, business, economics and history. This new collection integrates these differing approaches for the first time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134270583
• Artikelnr.: 38257540

Autorenporträt

James McConville is Professor at the Centre for International Transport Management, London Metropolitan University, UK. He is the author of the definitive 'The Economics of Maritime Transport: Theory and Practice', and also editor of the journal Maritime Policy and Management, which is also published by Taylor and Francis. Alfonso Morvillo is Director of the Institute for Service Industry Research of the National Research Council in Naples. He is the scientific coordinator of several international and national research projects in the field of logistics and freight transport, and lectures in shipping economics, management and financial analysis at the Istituto Universitario Navale in Naples. Heather Leggate is Director of the Centre for International Transport Management, London Metropolitan University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Financial Strategies 1. Financial Risks and Opportunities 2.
Financial Creativity 3. Investment Strategies in Market Uncertainty 4.
International Comparison of Market Risks Across Shipping-Related Industries
5.Perceptions of Foreign Exchange Rate Risk in the Shipping Industry Part
2: People and Skills 6. Developments in the Labour Market 7. The Future
Shortage of Seafarers: Will it become a reality? 8. Finding a Balance:
Companies, seafarers and family life 9. Seafarers of the World's Largest
Fleet Part 3: Ports in Transition 10. Ports as Hubs in the Logistics Chain
11. Cooperation and Competition in International Container Transport 12.
Northern Range Port Strategy 13. The Peripheral Port Challenge in Container
Port Systems Part 4: Logistics and ICT 14. Innovating Ocean Transport
Through Logistics and ICT 15. Responding to Shippers' Supply Chain
Requirements 16. The End of the Box? 17. ICT Practices in Container
Transport Part 5: The Regulatory Framework 18. The Surge in Regulation 19.
Green Shipping: European Policy and Economic Forces 20. Maritime
Legislation: New areas for safety of life at sea 21. Raising World Maritime
Standards