Elements of Shipping

By: Alan E. Branch

Publisher: Routledge, 2007 (Eighth edition) 

ISBN: 0-203-01308-3

Length: 504 pages

Type: e-Book

Abstract:

The book explains in a lucid, professional manner the basic elements of shipping embracing operating, e-commerce/computerization (shipboard/ trade), commercial, legal, economic, technical, managerial, logistics and financial considerations. It also reflects major trends including the impact of globalization, current good practice and future trends. All twenty-two chapters have been updated and over two-thirds of the content is new.

The Blackwell Compinion to Maritime Economics

By: Wayne K. Talley

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

ISBN: 978-1-4443-3024-3 (hardback : alk. paper) 

Length: 735 pages

Type: e-Book

Abstract:

Maritime economics is the economics of maritime transportation, i.e., an economic analysis of its users (shippers and passengers), primary service providers (transportation carriers and ports), secondary service providers (e.g., ship pilots and towage, ship agents, stevedores and freight forwarders) and resources (e.g., labor, infrastructure and mobile capital such as ships). As a field of study, maritime economics consists of shipping economics, ship economics and port economics. Shipping economics is concerned with the economics of transporting freight by ships. Ship economics is concerned with the economics of ships that are used in maritime transportation.