A ship’s crew plays an important role in the maritime transportation sector and their performance is paramont in the shipping industry. On this account, an impartial evaluation of the crew’s performance is an important issue. In this paper, the ship officer’s performance evaluation problem is studied. The performance evaluation criteria that shipping companies take into account are determined a...

This paper introduces the basic concept of the Position Navigation and Timing (PNT) Module as future part of a ship side Integrated Navigation System (INS). Core of the PNT Module is a sensor fusion based processing system (PNT Unit). The paper will focus on important aspects and first results of the initial practical realization of such a PNT Unit, including a realization of a Consiste...

Unavailability of a ship propulsion system under aging effects and proper maintenance is estimated using GO‐FLOW. GO‐FLOW is an effective software tool for the unavailability analysis of complex systems. Aging effects are incorporated into GO‐FLOW using a time‐dependent technique and assuming a linear aging model. The results show that the aging effects and improper maint...

The damage caused by the Nankai Trough earthquake is expected to be extremely extensive and severe. From term of about eight days after disaster (called “pull-type” transportation period) until reconstruction period there will a huge demand goods that far exceeds capacity trucks. If cannot carried out sufficiently, social disorder in early stages due shortages food beverages, etc. later, delay ...

<abstract><p>Maritime transportation plays a significant role in international trade and global supply chains. Ship navigation safety is the foundation of operating maritime business smoothly. Recently, more attention has been paid to marine environmental protection. To enhance reduce pollution environment, various regulations conventions are proposed by organizations local governme...

the conventional method towards deriving schedule for a fleet of ships to minimize cost alone has the short-coming of not addressing the problem of operation revenue losses associated with delays during maintenance at ships dockyards. in this paper, a preventive maintenance schedule for a fleet of ships that incorporates op-portunity cost is presented. the idea is to assign a penalty cost to al...

An autonomous ship refers to a that achieves operation in navigation, management, maintenance, cargo transportation and other aspects. Due the uncertainty risks posed by its risk assessment attracts great attention from researchers. By analyzing historical accident statistics, this paper gives comprehensive analysis perspective of “Man-Ship-Environment-Management”. In addition, quantitative eva...

although liability under general tort and contract law principles is not limited to a certain amount, liability arising under a carriage contract is limited by the majority of international transport conventions and national legislatures and, there are certain reasons given to justify the “essential departure from the current rules of civil law” and it is common for the liability of the carrier...

We present a comparative network theoretic analysis of the two largest global transportation networks: The worldwide air-transportation network (WAN) and the global cargoship network (GCSN). We show that both networks exhibit striking statistical similarities despite significant differences in topology and connectivity. Both networks exhibit a discontinuity in node and link betweenness distribu...

We present a comparative network-theoretic analysis of the two largest global transportation networks: the worldwide air-transportation network (WAN) and the global cargo-ship network (GCSN). We show that both networks exhibit surprising statistical similarities despite significant differences in topology and connectivity. Both networks exhibit a discontinuity in node and link betweenness distr...