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 ...

Shipping, the World's largest industry, consists of sectors and each sector is approaching the IT revolution in different ways for the achievement of competitive advantages. Today the shipping industry has expanded dramatically and it is in the process of harnessing the advancements of Information Technology in providing added value for the business. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a ...

Over the last twenty years a wave of consolidation has swept through the oceanic liner shipping industry, leaving the industry dominated by a small number of large firms organized into a handful of strategic alliances. As liner shipping is the dominant form of international transportation these changes have likely had a substantial impact of the global trading system. This paper empirically exa...

Late Acceptance Hill Climbing (LAHC) has been shown to be an effective local search method for several types of optimization problems, such as on certain types of scheduling problems as well as the traveling salesman problem. We apply LAHC to a central problem in the liner shipping industry, the Liner Shipping Fleet Repositioning Problem (LSFRP). The LSFRP involves the movement of vessels betwe...

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.” Latin Proverb The aviation community is undergoing a reappraisal of progress made in automated cockpits. This gives the shipping community the opportunity to learn from someone else’s mistakes and successes. Aviation has invested more heavily in automation than shipping, and in some respects can be considered to be ‘ahead’. The re...

The maritime industry is in many aspects using maintenance strategies from the past. Land based industry used to take influence from shipping to organise the maintenance in the 70:ties. Now industry is perusing new strategies that give better reliability and are more profitable. By focusing on reliability the indirect effects from doing the wrong maintenance can be reduced considerably. Shippin...

Results of a survey conducted by MAN PrimeServ in late 2011 among representatives of the global container, bulk and tanker shipping industry

INTRODUCTION There are numerous diverse papers that have addressed issues within maritime safety; to date there has been no comprehensive review of this literature to aggregate the causal factors within accidents in shipping and surmise current knowledge. METHODS This paper reviewed the literature on safety in three key areas: common themes of accidents, the influence of human error, and inte...