This paper presents an overview of e-commerce with a focus on maritime industry. It describes potential influence of the established financial services industry in the evolution of a new business model, and summarizes e-commerce motivated alliances, mergers, and partnerships in the industry. Given the formative nature of e-commerce technology, it is suggested that the maritime industry strike a...

extended abstractintroductionafter the cold war, geostrategic face took on a geo-economic domain. this means that on the world stage, economic competition, replaced military competition. hence the geopolitical divisions, geographic areas classified according to their economic importance and competition has intensified around the area. given that the earth is 4/3 with water and based on the theo...

Maritime communication systems and devices that are required onboard ships under the SOLAS (Safety Of Life At Sea) Convention are determined by the communication functions of Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS). This system was fully implemented on the 1st February 1999, and since then maritime communications methods have not been significantly changed. As a result, numerous rese...

The World Maritime Axis Policy (WMA) initiated by the Government of Indonesia focuses on Indonesia's national development based activities at sea, upholding sovereignty sea territory Unitary State Republic Indonesia, revitalizing maritime economic sectors, strengthening and developing connectivity. This is very dynamic when faced with China's Silk Road (MSR) policy. purpose this research to obt...

the possibility of bringing action in rem, is a privilege recognized in common law particularly in the maritime regulations of common law countries .on this basis, plaintiff may, subject to specified conditions, bring action against some properties (ship, cargo,…) instead of their owners, in order to enforce many maritime claims and in the case of pronouncing judgment in his or her favor, the j...

BACKGROUND Little is known regarding the symptoms of fatigue that maritime pilots experience during shift work. Moreover, the strategies these individuals use to cope with the onset of fatigue are also unknown. The current study explored the symptoms of fatigue and coping strategies experienced by maritime pilots when on-shift. MATERIAL AND METHODS Fifty maritime pilots were recruited via an ...

in this paper, we are going to investigate the growth of the iranian maritime transport with a focus mainly on the north - south transit corridor, review of dry ports in order to support the iranian container terminals at the south ports in order to increase the volume of container storages at the terminals. for the purpose of assessing the outcome of port operational management, the balanced s...