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This monograph addresses several critical problems to the operations of shipping lines and ports, and provides algorithms and mathematical models for use by shipping lines and port authorities for decision support. One of these problems is the repositioning of container ships in a liner shipping network in order to adjust the network to seasonal shifts in demand or changes in the world economy. We provide the first problem description and mathematical model of repositioning and define the liner shipping fleet repositioning problem (LSFRP). The LSFRP is characterized by chains of interacting activities with a multi-commodity flow over paths defined by the activities chosen. We first model the problem without cargo flows with a variety of well-known optimization techniques, as well as using a novel method called linear temporal optimization planning that combines linear programming with partial-order planning in a branch-and-bound framework. We then model the LSFRP with cargo flows, using several different mathematical models as well as two heuristic approaches. We evaluate our techniques on a real-world dataset that includes a scenario from our industrial collaborator. We show that our approaches scale to the size of problems faced by industry, and are also able to improve the profit on the reference scenario by over US$14 million.

Over its 140 year history, ocean liner shipping has almost always enjoyed an antitrust exemption permitting price-fixing cartels of ocean carriers. The exemption was premised on the belief that problems of cost and capacity inherent in the trade can be resolved only by horizontal collusion. Now that that exemption has been whittled away by deregulatory efforts, the pre- and post-deregulation evidence presents one of the world's rare opportunities for natural experiment on the behavior and effectiveness of collusive cartel pricing. Moreover, because normal and effective competition never really existed prior to 1998, the normative foundation of the antitrust exemption was based almost entirely on theoretically modeled economic arguments. Observing the industry's behavior under deregulation is therefore a before-and-after opportunity to test the predictive accuracy of at least one body of economic argument. Finally, the evolution of shipping policy is also part of a larger historiography--the shipping exemption reflects the larger story of government efforts to cope with the problems of industrial organization.

The workforce and the labour market / Heather McLaughlin & Colm Fearon -- Recruitment and the image of the shipping industry / Livingstone Divine Caesar & Jiangang Fei -- Standardisation of seafarer training and skills formation / Victor Gekara & Syamantak Bhattacharya -- Reward management and performance appraisal / Gholam Reza EMAD -- Industrial relations and international conventions / Wei Zhang -- Employee health and wellbeing / Hossein Enshaei -- Work-life balance / Livingstone Divine Caesar & Jiangang Fei -- Workforce mobility, career pathways, and employee retention / Jiangang Fei & Livingstone Divine Caesar -- The role of human element in risk and crisis management / Vinh V. Thai -- Knowledge management in the shipping industry / Jiangang Fei & Livingstone Divine Caesar

The place of the international physical distribution function (or shipping function as it is conventionally called in the United Kingdom) has been largely neglected in the area of logistics or physical distribution studies. This neglect, in particular of the export shipping function, is surprising in a country such as the United Kingdom which is so dependent upon international trade. The export shipping function cannot be regarded as merely an extension of the domestic physical distribution function. In many instances it has separate personnel who undertake a range of functions which may, individually, be just as closely associated with finance and accounting as with physical distribution. The separate tradition of the export shipping function means that it may not be conveniently accommodated into a logistics framework which attempts to integrate the domestic and international movement of goods.

The current economic crisis emerged from a particular financial crisis that
started in the United States and being rapidly propagated all over the world.
It did not affect a limited region or a limited economic sector. This crisis
induced significant changes in all management areas, including financial
management. This study is focused on financing strategies adopted by shipping
companies during the crisis, analyzing relevant factors for a specific issue
- the capital structure. The research methodology proposed for this analysis
on relevant factors that could explain the capital structure of shipping is
OLS regression applied on selected variables derived from the financial
statements of the major shipping companies. The dependent variables
reflecting capital structure are book value to total liabilities ratio and
book value to total debt ratio. The explanatory variables are derived from
the theory of capital structure. This study empirically illustrates the
relevance of the capital structure theory for the studied economic sector and
is a useful tool for the shipping companies, providing relevant information
about the optimal capital structure adopted by shipping companies and about
factors that influence this decision during a crisis period.

The financial crisis of 2007-08 saw a marked increase in global shipping disputes that is still being felt today. In recent decades, arbitration has emerged as the dominant choice of dispute resolution in the global shipping industry, with the establishment of major maritime arbitration centres in London and New York, and the recent emergence of new centres such as Singapore and China. At the same time, the immense advances that have been made and continue to be made in engineering, technology, and communications have led to the emergence of innumerable new trade practices, common understandings, and usages within which goods are carried by sea across the world, but which, because of the widespread use of alternative fora for dispute resolution, may be invisible to and unrecognized by domestic laws. This book asks: What are the implications of widespread use of arbitration for the continued development of shipping law? Are national laws on shipping destined to become ossified and obsolete? Is a new lex maritima emerging? And, most importantly, what is the role of the arbitral process in the evolution of shipping law? --Book jacket

"This edited volume brings together contributions from experienced academics and practitioners in shipping law to consider the crucial subject of remedies in shipping litigation. The collection takes a close look at the established principles and recent legal, commercial and technical developments in the area of remedies in shipping law. It is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on fundamental common law principles concerning damages, including approaches to topics such as damages for delay and what happens when a charter is thrown over early; the reflective loss rule; mitigation; and the problem of cryptocurrency. The second part considers technology and how it affects contracts and remedies, including the use of new technologies and the development of new liability regimes. The third part explores contractual remedies other than simple compensatory damages, considering issues such as limitation of liability, punitive damages, specific remedies, third party claims and liabilities, and anti-suit injunctions. Written for lawyers and administrators not only in England and Wales but worldwide (especially Germany, Switzerland, Greece, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and India), the book will also be of interest to specialist maritime law firms in the USA. It will be a valuable addition to specialist law libraries within Europe and the USA, and to university libraries where maritime and shipping law are taught as specialist subjects"--

Each quarterly shipping list contains the list of South Carolina state documents that are sent by the South Carolina State Library to eleven depository libraries across the state and the Library of Congress.

Each quarterly shipping list contains the list of South Carolina state documents that are sent by the South Carolina State Library to eleven depository libraries across the state and the Library of Congress.

Each quarterly shipping list contains the list of South Carolina state documents that are sent by the South Carolina State Library to eleven depository libraries across the state and the Library of Congress.

Each quarterly shipping list contains the list of South Carolina state documents that are sent by the South Carolina State Library to eleven depository libraries across the state and the Library of Congress.

Each quarterly shipping list contains the list of South Carolina state documents that are sent by the South Carolina State Library to eleven depository libraries across the state and the Library of Congress.

Each quarterly shipping list contains the list of South Carolina state documents that are sent by the South Carolina State Library to eleven depository libraries across the state and the Library of Congress.