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MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018 The technological process of ship engine overhaul begins with dismantling, while the obligatory operation is flaw detection of parts. The flaw detection at this stage involves certain difficulties due to the fact that the entire repair process takes ...
Ilyakhinskiy Alexander +2 more
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"For the services of shipwrights, coopers, and grumettas": Freetown's ship repair cluster in nineteenth-century Sierra Leone. [PDF]
Hist Sci, 2023 Everill B.
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In May 2020, China abruptly suspended imports from several major Australian beef processors, escalating a diplomatic dispute between the two countries. This trade measure disrupted one of the largest beef export relationships in the world almost overnight.
K. Aleks Schaefer, Youngjune Kim
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Constraint Theory Approach Analysis of the Nigerian Shipbuilding Industry
Logi, 2019 Nigeria has been unable to develop a viable ship building industry over the years notwithstanding several efforts of government at achieving that. The study aimed to identify and determine the principal component constraints to ship building development ...
Nwokedi Theophilus C. +4 more
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Feasibility of the Inverse-Dispersion Model for Quantifying Drydock Emissions
Atmosphere, 2019 Important processes within the shipbuilding and ship repair industry include metal cutting, welding, surface preparation, and painting. When dealing with ship repair, ships are brought into drydocks to carry out necessary repairs. Typical repairs include
Bhaskar Kura, Abhinay Jilla
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When the River Runs Low: Heterogeneous Impacts of Transportation Disruptions on Local Grain Basis
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A substantial share of U.S. soybean and corn exports from the Midwest moves by barge along the Mississippi River system to export terminals in the Louisiana Gulf. Transportation costs between Midwestern grain elevators and export terminals create a wedge between prices at these locations, and shocks to these costs are partially passed on to ...
Yuan Zhang +3 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Drought is among the most severe and persistent threats to food supply chains, and relocating production to less drought‐prone regions offers a strategy to reduce this risk. This is particularly relevant for fresh vegetables, which are highly water‐intensive, yet drought‐driven reconfiguration strategies remain understudied.
Bingyan Dai +2 more
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Do More Open Economies Export Less Diversely in Brazilian Agribusiness?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper asks whether municipalities with a larger export‐to‐revenue ratio display a more concentrated bundle of exported goods in Brazilian agribusiness. Recent advances in export imputation for Brazilian municipalities allow for an analysis of the concentration profile of each municipality and its association with export openness.
Alan Leal, Michelle Marcia Viana Martins
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Construction of the Ship's Technical Failure Model to Assess its Navigational Safety [PDF]
TransNav, 2008 The ship technical failures contribution in overall number of navigational accidents are significantly smaller than those caused by human factor but in safety analysis they cannot be neglected.
Lucjan Gucma, Rafal Gralak
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