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Risk Criteria for the Shipping Industry
Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 2006AbstractThis paper proposes dual risk criteria for the shipping industry based on a goal‐setting approach to safety requiring risk in the tolerability region to be as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP) within which there is a prescriptive target risk level which should not be reached.
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The role of the entrepreneur in the shipping industry
Maritime Policy & Management, 1981(1981). The role of the entrepreneur in the shipping industry. Maritime Policy & Management: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 137-140.
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Visualization of ship risk profiles for the shipping industry [PDF]
, 2010 This article uses correspondence analysis to visualize risk profiles and their changes over the time period 1977 to 2008. It is based on a unique dataset which combines incident data and ship particular data. The risk profiles can help stakeholders better understand the relationship of ship particulars, casualty types, incident locations, loss of life ...
Knapp, S., van de Velden, M.
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1990
Shipping was the most important and effective mode of transport in the eighteenth century. It required no man-made path and its energy source was free. The extensive coastlines of Britain, France and Scandinavia provided an ideal environment for the development of coastal communications before the railways broke the bottleneck of overland transport.
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Shipping was the most important and effective mode of transport in the eighteenth century. It required no man-made path and its energy source was free. The extensive coastlines of Britain, France and Scandinavia provided an ideal environment for the development of coastal communications before the railways broke the bottleneck of overland transport.
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1984
Some 98 per cent of British exports and 99 per cent of imports, by weight, are carried by sea. Figures 6.1 and 6.2 show the quantities involved and the countries of origin and destination.1 Approximately 37 per cent of exports in 1980 were carried on ships under the UK flag, as were 31 per cent of imports.
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Some 98 per cent of British exports and 99 per cent of imports, by weight, are carried by sea. Figures 6.1 and 6.2 show the quantities involved and the countries of origin and destination.1 Approximately 37 per cent of exports in 1980 were carried on ships under the UK flag, as were 31 per cent of imports.
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Navigation and the Shipping Industry
Journal of Navigation, 1952The Institute was planned to bring together not merely the professional navigators, but all who could contribute to the exchange and advance of knowledge bearing on navigation. The founders were wise when they gave effect to the thought that the small-boat sailor and the sailplane aviator could contribute to the progress of our science and art, and ...
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The Nigerian shipping industry and indigenous shipping companies
Maritime Policy & Management, 2005The shipping industry in Nigeria since the early 1990s has been experiencing a continuous disastrous downturn. Nigerian shipping companies’ participation in international shipping has continued to be very limited. Their presence and impact is hardly felt in the world's shipping industry.
B. B. Damachi *, Yang Zhaosheng
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Replacement in the Shipping Industry
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1946I904-I4,2 total new construction had two peaks, the first of which coincided with that of replacement and the second with that of new investment. The present study shows clearly that in the period here analyzed, as in the earlier period, replacement was leading in the business cycle. For this analysis, the life characteristics of "first-ownerships" for
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Fatigue in the shipping industry [PDF]
, 2005 Fatigue is a 'reduction in physical and/or mental capacity as the result of physical, mental, or emotional exertion which may impair nearly all physical abilities including: strength, speed, reaction time, coordination, decision making or balance'. The literature is quite clear on the debilitating effect of fatigue on (different aspects of) performance.
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