This article addresses overcapacity and crisis in global shipping through the case of HMM Algeciras, world's largest containership inaugurated 2020. When she left South Korean shipyard where was built, Algeciras (with a size two soccer fields) could carry 24,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) across oceans. By following mega-containership's links to companies, Hyundai Merchant Marine Hanji...

Purpose: This study aims to improve the performance of team in public organizations engaged education at shipping industry which is enhanced by various concepts, such as knowledge sharing, transformative interaction capability, value oriented development capability. Theoretical framework: Transformative Interaction capability and Value provides a central role improving based on resource-based t...

When long voyages in sailing vessels were commonplace, scurvy was a major health hazard in mariners of all nations. The observations of James Lind (1716-94) and others indicated that citrus fruits had both a preventive and curative role in this disease. In the light of this work, by 1800 the disease had been virtually eliminated from Britain's Royal Navy. However, it continued in the merchant n...

BACKGROUND Merchant seafaring often involves hazardous occupational operations and several studies have shown increased overall injury mortality. The aim of this study was to describe the risks involved in slip, trip and fall (STF) injuries in merchant seafaring, in order to point out areas for prevention. METHODS A questionnaire study was carried out in 11 countries with 6,461 participants. ...

In the world of internet, e-commerce is one of the most prominent sectors where user wants to shop and pay online for online products. E-cash is one of these payment methods. In e-cash, every time a unique string is generated for user so that user uses that string to pay for any online product. At the time of online purchasing a trust should be maintain between customers and merchant such that ...

I have chosen the title of this paper with some care. I am not undertaking to set out the conceptual foundations of cost-benefit analysis. Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is a body of practical techniques. Although it is clear enough that these techniques are largely derived from neo-classical economic theory, what we take the conceptual foundations of CBA to be is still to some extent a matter of ...

Many have speculated that trust plays a critical role in stimulating consumer purchases over the Internet. nature of the Internet raises questions about the robustness of trust effects across cultures. Culture may also affect the antecedents of consumer trust; that is, consumers in different cultures might have differing expectations of what makes a web merchant trustworthy. Here we report on a...