To manage complex and dynamic socio-technical systems places demands on teams to deal with a range of more and less foreseeable situations. Three groups of participants with different maritime experiences were studied using the same simulation of a ship to better understand the role of generic competencies (e.g. information management, communication and coordination, decision making, and effect...

In light of the fact that information communication technologies (ICTs) in general and the Internet/ WWW technology in particular are likely to soon accelerate penetration into the maritime market, bringing together innovative services, this article aims to identify a set of appealing Web-based services for ship travelers. To that end, the article uses a research methodology that includes three...

This paper presents an overview of e-commerce with a focus on maritime industry. It describes potential influence of the established financial services industry in the evolution of a new business model, and summarizes e-commerce motivated alliances, mergers, and partnerships in the industry. Given the formative nature of e-commerce technology, it is suggested that the maritime industry strike a...

Across the boreal forest of Canada, lynx populations undergo regular density cycles. Analysis of 21 time series from 1821 onward demonstrated structural similarity in these cycles within large regions of Canada. The observed population dynamics are consistent with a regional structure caused by climatic features, resulting in a grouping of lynx population dynamics into three types (correspondin...

The paper presents objectives and tasks of the EC project BALTPORTS-IT, aimed at promoting and supporting dissemination, industrial customisation and transfer of technologies and tools gained during execution of the successfully completed EC projects AMCAI and DAMAC-HP. Customisation of a simulation model of container terminal operation, as well as of maritime information systems, is discussed....

This paper provides an overview of the initial position and rationale regarding the development of an unmanned ship. This is based on the proposal for the EU-funded project MUNIN (Maritime Unmanned Navigation through Intelligence in Networks). Based on the European vision of an autonomous ship, MUNIN’s understanding of autonomy, its contribution towards a sustainable maritime transport system a...

Compared with technical research on ships, there is lack of systematic data and research on maritime labour, their number, education and manning eciency. Due to the high mobility of the profession and complication of jurisdictions, there is no exact ®gure of the number of seamen worldwide. This paper establishes a method to estimate maritime labour worldwide as well as on open-registry ̄eets. ...

Eleven species of Mordellidae are newly recorded for New Brunswick, Canada. Six of these, Falsomordellistena discolor (Melsheimer), Falsomordellistena pubescens (Fabricius), Mordellistena ornata (Melsheimer), Mordellaria undulata (Melsheimer), Tomoxia inclusa LeConte, and Yakuhananomia bidentata (Say)are new for the Maritime provinces. Falsomordellistena pubescens is new to Canada. Pelecotoma f...

Maritime In-Transit Care (MITC) is a new concept to allow the provision of pre-hospital care in the maritime environment within Role 2 Afloat (R2A) teams. This article describes the experiences of an Emergency Medicine nurse and a Medical Assistant who made up the MITC team on the recent R2A exercise on RFA CARDIGAN BAY. As well as describing their personal experiences, the concept of the MITC ...