The business of shipping /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Centreville, Md. :
Cornell Maritime Press,
2001.
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| Edition: | 7th ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The significance of maritime transportation
- Regulatory involvement in maritime transportation
- Tramp shipping : its management and operations
- Chartering
- Liner shipping : its management and operations
- The conference system
- Passenger vessel operations
- Industrial and special carriers
- Tanker management, operations, and chartering
- Vessel management companies
- Vessel bunkering
- Ship husbandry : procurement of vessel stores, supplies
- The logic of ships scheduling
- Terminal management and operations
- Containerization and its impact on transportation
- The intermodal transportation concept
- How freight rates are made
- The ocean bill of lading
- The traffic study
- Planning for a new ship
- New technology for the maritime industry
- The business of shipping.