A sustainable transport system needs a cost accounting and full cost-pricing systems reflecting economicfactors which originate from transport activity inhibiting sustainable development (namely, externalities; spillovereffects and non-priced inter-sectorial linkages; public goods; uncompetitive markets; myopic planning horizonsand high discount rates; risk and uncertainty, irre...

The main objective of this paper is to highlight maritime security challenges within the South Western Indian Ocean Region; especially by India and South Africa and to explore the maritime initiatives and developments embarked upon by the two countries respectively. The East coast of South Africa and the West coast of India share the same oceanic territory, i.e. the Indian Ocean. This research ...

standardized concept of kilometers or miles. If you ask a Southeast Asian peasant how far it is to the next village, say, the answer will probably be in units of time, not of linear distance. A peasant quite familiar with watches might answer "about half an hour," and an older farmer, less familiar with abstract time units, might reply in vernacular units, "three rice-cookings" or "two cigarett...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2012.01.176 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +65 65165494; fax: + E-mail address: [email protected] (Q. Meng). The traffic volume in the Singapore Strait will be significantly increased according to the prediction by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Therefore, it is important for the maritime authorities (e....

the present research has been done with the aim of determine the relationship between intellectual capital and employee performance of ports and maritime organization. statistical population of the present study includes head office employees of tehran ports and maritime organization. the statistical population is 140 people, 103 samples were selected according to morgan table. in this research...

The port system is a particularly important segment of valorisation of the sea and of the maritime orientation of any country and together with shipping it constitutes a fundamental link of the maritime industry of a country. A strong maritime economy can be built by the developing of all of its segments, systematically linked into a single entity and mutually determined. In this respect, the p...

This essay uses an eighteenth-century patolu—a fine silk double-ikat textile—as the jumping-off point to explore complex trading relationship between South Asia and islands of maritime Southeast Asia. Using Dutch Textile Trade Project’s data visualizations, this considers loosening connections specific localities (including Gujarat, Coromandel Coast, Bengal) their characteristic textiles in ear...

Maritime anomaly detection requires an efficient representation and consistent knowledge of vessel behaviour. Automatic Identification System (AIS) data provides ships state vector and identity information that is here used to automatically derive knowledge of maritime traffic in an unsupervised way. The proposed approach only utilises AIS data, historical or real-time, and is aimed at incremen...

In this paper we look into the management of empty maritime containers by making use of reverse logistics theory. We map the reverse logistics system, identifying the drivers for recovery, the characteristics of the containers, why they are being returned, how they are being recovered and by whom. We identify that empty maritime container management has to address mainly the management of the c...

The response of Asian monsoon precipitation to contrasting orbital parameters is simulated using the MRI-CGCM climate model. Results show that for the 125 kya B. P. experiment , a large continental heating due to obliquity forcing is apparent and accounts for the strengthened cross equatorial flow, stronger monsoon westerly over the Ara-5 bian Sea, and an enhanced precipitation over the Indian ...