Today, alternative fuels are seen as a critical area of sustainable technological growth in maritime transport. The International Maritime Organisation (IMO), the United Nations body for maritime issues and other international bodies are in the process of amending and updating the regulations...

This paper presents a fuzzy set-based approach to the evaluation of information technology (IT) projects. We assume a multi-criteria decision-making framework, where sets of general and domain-specific criteria are used to judge the relative performance of alternative technologies. The...

While electronic business (e-business) is developing rapidly, the pace and pattern of development of these technologies and related business practices are quite variable across countries and industries. In the shipping industry today, we observe various implementations and modes of use of...

The significance of using efficient ports in modern supply chains cannot be overstated. Gantry cranes are key elements of superstructure in port container terminals, as they are placed in the ship–berth interface. In this paper, Markov theory and reliability models are used for the estimation...

Shipping companies are high-vulnerability information handling organizations (HIHOs). In the past, such companies used exclusively HIHO private communication networks and own satellite resources in order to share and transport sensitive information. In recent years, the ability for the HIHO...