This paper is derived from a cost benefit study of the involvement of the State in the shipping industry which was carried out in the context of the Appraisal of the Public Capital Programme. A brief theoretical comment on foreign exchange rates is the only new material I have added. The paper is concerned with the mainly strategic company in the state-owned shipping sector, Irish Shipping Ltd....

OBJECTIVES Confirmation of Kudoa septempunctata (K. septempunctata) as the pathogenic agent causing acute food poisoning remains under debate owing to inconsistencies in the reproducibility of experimental evidence. Higher intake of olive flounder infected with K. septempunctata would result in increased diagnosis of food poisoning by K. septempunctata, if the latter was one of the causal agent...

In female mice, the experience of being shipped from the breeder facility or a single injection of the bacterial endotoxin, lipopolysaccharide (LPS), during pubertal development alters the behavioral response to estradiol in adulthood as demonstrated by perturbations of estradiol's effects on sexual behavior, cognitive function, as well as its anxiolytic and anti-depressive properties. Microgli...

Relative to brick-and-mortar retailers, online retailers have the potential to offer more options to their customers, with respect to both inventory as well as service times. To do this entails the management of a distribution network with more decision options than a traditional retailer. The online retailer, not the customer, decides from where items will ship, by what shipping method, and ho...

The Baltic Sea shipping is at a crossroads as sulphur regulation will lead to excessive cost increases from the year 2015 onwards and CO2 emission trading is planned to be implemented for the entire shipping sector within the EU area. Therefore, shipping is going to be minimized and hinterland transportation (road and rail) will act as substitute. This research analyzes the situation on one of ...

11 Article history: 12 Available online xxxx 13 Keywords: 14 Fuzzy QFD 15 FAHP 16 FAD 17 SoQ 18 Shipping investments 19 Tanker markets 20 2 1 a b s t r a c t 22 Q5 Studying the market has crucial roles for executing the shipping investment decisions in maritime trans-23 portation industry. The high level of managerial effort requires bringing market tendencies with the up-24 to-date data over d...

The mandatory requirement and introduction of ECDIS is seen by the regulatory bodies guiding the shipping industry as a major step forward in safe ship operation and protection of the environment. The transition to electronic navigation and the operation of a paperless bridge is however initially viewed differently by the shipping community with increased operational costs of new equipment and ...

This paper elaborates the human factors in ship management, and analyzes Liveware-Liveware interface and LivewareEnvironment interface based upon the SHEL model. And the measures to reduce human error in marine transport has also been proposed. This paper also has made systematic analysis on the complexity of Shipping Transportation System, construct system model, and analyzes Synergy Mechanism...

ship exhaust emission inventories and their associated externalities constitute valuableinformation resources towards policy making and management of the influence exerted by shipping on airquality. to this extent, the container terminal at the greek port of piraeus by virtue of its shipping significanceand its urbanised character was selected in order to provide an estimation of the emissions ...

Wind-driven and distant shipping noise sources contribute to the total noise field in the deep ocean direct-arrival zones. Wind-driven and distant shipping noise sources may significantly and simultaneously affect the spatial characteristics of the total noise field to some extent. In this work, a ray approach and parabolic equation solution method were jointly utilized to model the low-frequen...