The maritime supply chain of energy concerns all trips done between ports on the maritime space. The use of this space has in-crease since 1970. This increase is due to the globalization, a strong increase of the demand of energy and freight, containerization of goods and economies of scale (Rodrigue, 2013). Due to the development of maritime transport, a territorialization process appears on m...

This paper considers the implications of Bills of Lading issued as negotiable electronic transport documents for the maritime international carriage of goods, as proposed by the Rotterdam Rules. The legal usage of paper based documents is considered first. This is followed by discussion of the practical challenges that electronic negotiable Bills of Lading may pose, particularly in the lodgment...

This research focuses on estimating and understanding the costs and causes of transportation related supply chain disruptions. In-depth interviews with logistics managers were undertaken to investigate how companies perceive transportation related supply chain disruptions and what they are doing to respond and address them. Stated choice experiments were designed to estimate the cost of disrupt...

The preservation and maintenance of locally built, handcrafted vessels is costly and time consuming, with skills of construction and operation both esoteric and rare. Functionally, such craft may be unable to fulfil their original missions to fish, carry cargo, or serve as a platform for other maritime trade. With modernization, the loss of local vessels is imminent, as are the skills, songs, w...

a Institute of Systems Science, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China b School of International Trade and Economics, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing 100029, PR China Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, PR China Department of Applie...

piracy is an international crime that poses a serious threat to the countries’ national security, international trade and maritime security. although the offense has been the subject of numerous conventions and agreements, and many measures have been taken to combat it, but no practical measure has been predicted so far to trial the perpetrators. several factors have role in the failure to achi...

Multi-word lexical units are a typical feature of specialized dictionaries, in particular monolingual and bilingual maritime dictionaries. The paper studies the concept of the multi-word lexical unit and considers the similarities and differences of their selection and presentation in monolingual and bilingual maritime dictionaries. The work analyses such issues as the classification of multi-w...


 Maritime piracy is a threat to maritime trade whose contemporary version has been legally addressed by the United Nations Convention on Law of Sea (UNCLOS) and International Organization (IMO) coercively UN EU. The present article analyzes from Copenhagen School’s theoretical perspective its application Chamber Commerce’s annual reports piracy, information ranges 1991 2019. This analysis...

INTRODUCTION Since Ebola worldwide infection, the Centre de Consultation Médicale Maritime (CCMM), French maritime Tele-Medical Assistance Service (TMAS), has been widely involved; this on request of the French Directorate for Maritime Affairs (Ministry for Ecology and Transport), to implement recommendations. Several procedures have been developed jointly with the Directorate for Maritime Affa...

In the recorded history of Sri Lanka and Malaysia, trade with Chinese merchants, transhipment goods, embarking ships people were an ordinary occurrence. Malaysia initial subscribers Belt Road Initiative (BRI), when China launched BRI in 2013. Hence, problem identified for this research is: why are China’s relations through 21st century Maritime Silk being scrutinised by Western powers? Towards ...