Ocean transport to international trade is very important in Taiwan. The direct shipping opened between Taiwan and China in 2008 and the rising of e-commerce business increases the volumes of cargoes between cross-strait. The communications between Taiwan and China have become more frequently. That is why the “maritime express” appeared. Comparison with air express, maritime express has an advan...

The Royal Navy's victory at Trafalgar on 21 October 1805 has been recognised by historians as the point at which Britain became the nineteenth century's unchallenged maritime power. Its maritime strength in the immediate post-Trafalgar era was symbolized not only by its line-of-battle ships, frigates, corvettes and sloops scattered on stations around the globe but also by its industrial capacit...

Transport corridors are receiving a growing level of attention, particularly with the surge of containerized maritime freight and the setting of more efficient time and costwise freight distribution systems. Global commodity chains, with a strong Pacific Asian component and controlled by large modal and intermodal freight operators, have become an operational reality. Particularly, the role of ...

the role of distance as border effects between trade partners has been created challengeable discussions in gravity model literature for international economists and lead to different theoretical aspects for measuring and modeling of it in recent years. moreover, the necessity of non-linear method for estimation of gravity model has been perfectly agreed. the importance of this study is the est...

since the evidence for direct maritime trade between the sassanid empire and china is exiguous, it has often been asserted that there was no direct sea commerce between these two countries. scholars claim that there is nothing to prove direct chinese sailings to iran before islam and say that direct sea commerce between them was occurred during early islamic period. based on the historical, arc...