If we consider the worldwide maritime shipping industry as a system, we observe that a large number of independent rational agents such as port authorities, shipping service providers, shipping companies, and commodity producers play a role in achieving predominant positions and in increasing market share. The maritime shipping industry can, from this perspective, be defined as a Complex System...

Many firms divide the price a consumer pays for a good into two pieces—the price for the item itself and the price for shipping and handling. With fully rational customers, the exact division between the two prices is irrelevant—only the total price matters. We test this hypothesis by selling matched pairs of CDs and Xbox games in a series of field experiments on eBay. In theory, the ending auc...

Marine spatial planning provides a comprehensive framework for managing multiple uses of the marine environment and has the potential to minimize environmental impacts and reduce conflicts among users. Spatially explicit assessments of the risks to key marine species from human activities are a requirement of marine spatial planning. We assessed the risk of ships striking humpback (Megaptera no...

The Canadian Arctic has experienced decreasing sea ice extent and increasing shipping activity in recent decades. While there are economic incentives to develop resources in the north, there are environmental concerns that increasing marine traffic will contribute to declining air quality in northern communities. In an effort to characterize the relative impact of shipping on air quality in the...

In the world, most international trade is carried out by shipping. Taiwan is surrounded by sea and is a key transportation hub in the Asia-Pacific region. Shipping industry in Taiwan plays an important role in international trade. In order to enhance the competitiveness of shipping companies, managers need to increase the overall efficiency. One way to achieve this is to allocate limited resour...

The global shipping network facilitates the transportation and introduction of marine and terrestrial organisms to regions where they are not native, and some of these organisms become invasive. South Africa was used as a case study to evaluate the potential for shipping to contribute to the introduction and establishment of marine and terrestrial alien species (i.e. establishment debt) and to ...

In this paper, we present a polynomial-time algorithm for TPQ (tree pattern queries) minimization without XML constraints involved. The main idea of the algorithm is a dynamic programming strategy to find all the matching subtrees within a TPQ. A matching subtree implies a redundancy and should be removed in such a way that the semantics of the original TPQ is not damaged. Our algorithm consist...

The shippers have the requests for the accessibility and economics of logistics on the premise of cargo safety, and the cargo shipping safety is an important part of logistics safety. Thus, it is quite essential to monitor the cargo shipping safety. The data is difficult to obtain in the research for cargo shipping safety, thus it cannot cover all states of influencing factors during modeling p...

BACKGROUND Cord blood banking requires methods for shipping and storage. This study examines the influence of shipping via overnight courier on postthaw viability of cord blood. STUDY DESIGNS AND METHODS Anticoagulated cord blood was divided with one sample diluted 1:1 using STM-sav (a storage solution) and the other undiluted. Units were shipped from Minneapolis to Memphis and returned, RBC-...

There is no production system without having a logistic CIM system, now. The more the hardware equipment is developed for the logistic CIM, the more the logistic CIM is automated and integrated by them. As comparing the software system with the hardware one, the software system, which totally manages the hardware equipment, is behind the hardware system. An automated shipping sorter is one of s...