World trade increasingly relies on longer, larger and more complex supply chains, where maritime transportation is a vital backbone of such operations. Long and complex supply chain systems are more prone to being vulnerable, though through reviews, no specific methods have been found to assess vulnerabilities of a maritime transportation system. Most existing supply chain risk assessment frame...

The text of this paper is based on a presentation at the First International Congress of Maritime, Tropical, and Hyperbaric Medicine, 4th July 2009, Gdynia, Poland. The assessment of fitness to work at sea is an important aspect of maritime risk management. The risks in the industry, the approaches used for assessment, and the evidence on which they are based have changed over time. The transit...

10 Research findings on the evolution of the world economy and its link with transport 2 SUMMARY Globalisation is linked to wage disparities between different economic regions. These disparities are set to remain in place for at least another decade, even if the very process of globalisation will eventually eliminate them. However, the differences between economic regions and areas will continu...

We study the impacts of carbon taxation international transport fuels on CO2 emissions and trade activity, focusing maritime transport, which constitutes most important activity. Our estimated bunker price elasticities range from −0.03 to −0.42. For current level trade, a global tax US$ 40 per ton will reduce by 7.65% for heaviest traded products (at 6-digit HS aggregation) transported sea. The...

Although maritime trade along the coast of 4th/10th-century Ifrīqiya has been studied in some detail, less is known about its development 3rd/9th century, when province was under Aghlabid rule. This partly due to nature information contained Arabic historical and geographical sources on which many studies rely. paper argues that legal texts are an additional source can expand our knowledge pra...

Maritime transport is an important part of the supply chain network and logistics services in international trade. As a result negative situation economy trade due to Covid-19 pandemic, maritime freight market was also affected. In this context, aim research evaluate factors that affect general operation ship chartering brokerage activities company performance Covid-19. study, survey applied 14...