This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the economics of the business of maritime transport. It provides an economic explanation of four aspects of maritime transport, namely, the demand, the supply, the market and the strategy. The book first explains why seaborne trade happens and what its development trends are; it then analyses the main features of shipping supply and how various shipping markets function; the book finally addresses the critical strategic issues of the shipping b...
Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants (Princeton Modern Greek Studies, #24)
by Molly Greene
A new international maritime order was forged in the early modern age, yet until now histories of the period have dealt almost exclusively with the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants shifts attention to the Mediterranean, providing a major history of an important but neglected sphere of the early modern maritime world, and upending the conventional view of the Mediterranean as a religious frontier where Christians and Muslims met to do battle. Molly Greene investiga...
Towards Principled Oceans Governance (Routledge Advances in Maritime Research, #10)
Australia and Canada have been at the forefront of efforts to operationalize integrated oceans and coastal management. Throughout the 1990s both countries devoted considerable effort to developing strategies to give effect to international ocean management obligations. This key book focuses on principles of marine environmental conservation and management, maritime regulation and enforcement, and regional maritime planning and implementation. With contributions from respected scholars, this inf...
British Tramp Shipping, 1750-1914 (Research in Maritime History, #24)
This session of the Regional Commission for Fisheries, attended by five members and six invited organisations, acknowledged the importance of having an instrument for the protection of the marine environment, added two species to the priority list, agreed to work on harmonizing data submitted by different countries, and decided to proceed with the standard FAO aquaculture data questionnaires.
A Practical Course in Wooden Boat and Ship Building
by Richard Montgomery Van Gaasbeek
A collection of incisive essays emerging from the second Fleet Historical Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, A Nation's Navy documents for the first time the evolution of a distinctive Canadian naval identity. Contributors explore a wealth of pivotal issues: the popular perception of the Canadian navy, the navy as an instrument of national policy, the impact of various wars and conflicts, the navy as an expression of Canadian society, the distinctive role of women and the integration of francop...
Code of safe working practices for merchant seafarers
Lives Of Distinguished American Naval Officers V1
by James Fenimore Cooper
Unresolved Border, Land and Maritime Disputes in Southeast Asia (Studies on East Asian Security and International Relations)
National and International Law Enforcement in the Ocean
by William T. Burke
Marine War Risks is the only book devoted to drawing together and analysing the insurance of commercial shipping against war risks. It brings together legal principles, case law and legislation with the practice of the insurance market in order to answer many difficult questions concerning liabilities, claims and extent of cover.
Marine Insurance Legislation (Lloyd's Shipping Law Library)
by Professor Robert M. Merkin
A comprehensive and fully updated annotation of the Marine Insurance Act 1906, setting out the authorities on which the legislation was based and the manner in which the legislation has been construed, with cross-references to the Institute Clauses.
The Free Sea offers a unique, single-volume analysis of incidents that challenged U.S. freedom of navigation at sea. The book spans more than two hundred years, from the Quasi-War with France in 1798 to contemporary freedom of navigation operations in the South China Sea. Since World War II, the struggle for freedom of navigation has pulled the United States to the brink of war with Vietnam during the Gulf of Tonkin incident, North Korea with the seizure of the USS Pueblo in 1968, and Cambodia w...
Marine Insurance
Each chapter describes the dynamics or tensions within a specific marine sector or policy community. Collectively, the contributors raise critical questions about the process, structure, and function of Canadian oceans policy, covering topics such as the Atlantic fishery, conservation, ocean science and technology, shipping, aboriginal rights, defence, and pollution. The book conveys a cautiously optimistic message: although Canada does not yet have a comprehensive oceans policy, there is growin...
Voluntary Guidelines for Catch Documentation Schemes
A Catch Documentation Scheme helps determine whether fish originate from catches that comply with applicable national, regional and international conservation and management measures, established in accordance with relevant international obligations. These Voluntary Guidelines for Catch Documentation Schemes were elaborated in response to concerns expressed over the continued threat to marine habitats and ecosystems represented by illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing, and the negative imp...