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“Force Majeure”, Extension of Time Clauses and the Prevention Principle in Shipbuilding Contracts
Seatific Engineering Research Journal, 2023 Under English law, it is entirely up to the contract parties to agree on “force majeure” events that are beyond the builder’s control. Under an old English law principle known as the “prevention principle”, no party to a contract should be allowed to benefit from its own failure to perform.
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An enterprise-level naval shipbuilding plan [PDF]
Overview: This paper reviews the past performance of Australian naval shipbuilding, describes the pros and cons of a rolling production model, and unpicks the issues that the government will have to take into account.
Andrew Davies, Mark Thomson
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CONTESTED GOOD CITY STORIES FROM A NORTH CHENNAI LITTORAL
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 49, Issue 6, Page 1302-1322, November 2025.Abstract This article investigates the wilful destruction of Ennore Creek, a littoral wetland system in north Chennai, Tamil Nadu, by a series of shifting statist good city imaginaries expressed in plans, research reports, environmental impact assessments, government orders and court judgements.
Lindsay Bremner +2 more
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Business forms and business performance in UK manufacturing 1871–81
The Economic History Review, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 1231-1254, November 2025.Abstract We explore which business forms were predominant in the later Victorian economy and why some forms were more effective among large British manufacturing firms during this period. With a dataset of 483 manufacturing firms in 1881 that either employed at least 1000 or had done so a decade earlier, we find that the great majority were ...
James Foreman‐Peck, Leslie Hannah
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The international ocean transport industry in crisis : assessing the reasons and outlook [PDF]
Until 1980, the world merchant fleet expanded rapidly in response to thriving seatrade markets. Since then, it has not grown much. The industry did not adjust effectively to periodic global recession, and the fleet's earnings deteriorated as the gap ...
Peters, Hans Jurgen
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How Much Did The Liberty Shipbuilders Forget? [PDF]
This paper produces new estimates of the rate of organizational forgetting in the well-known case study of US wartime ship production. I show that estimation is easily colored by problems of unobserved product heterogeneity and sensitivity to ...
Peter Thompson
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The defence industry in Scotland [PDF]
, 2009 “The defence industry is vital to Scotland”1 The above quote from the recent House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee report concerns the volume of economic activity that the defence industry supports in Scotland.
Dunlop, Stewart
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Virtual integration platform for computational fluid dynamics [PDF]
, 2009 Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools used in shipbuilding industry involve multiple disciplines, such as resistance, manoeuvring, and cavitation. Traditionally, the analysis was performed separately and sequentially in each discipline, which often ...
Duffy, A. +5 more
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Condensed Capitalism: Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century [PDF]
, 2009 [Excerpt] The Campbell experience demonstrates that many strategies of late twentieth-century capitalism had precursors earlier in the century. Many components of Campbell\u27s strategy, surprisingly, are as typical of today\u27s neoliberal globalizing ...
Sidorick, Daniel
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Australian naval shipbuilding since the 2013 election: a quick guide [PDF]
This Quick Guide provides an overview of the Australian naval shipbuilding industry since the 2013 federal election. Specifically, three key questions are addressed: What is the current status of naval shipbuilding and sustainment within Australia ...
Nathan Church
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