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In the challenging domain of seafaring, when crewing agencies choose the right seafarers for their clients, the agency has to consider that the recruited seafarers not only have to produce good results in order to satisfy the ship management and the ship owner, but also they have to improve the...
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This paper presents new estimates of country-specific international transport costs for 21 OECD countries over the period 1973-2005. The methodology is based on direct measures of air, maritime, and road transport costs rather than on cif/fob ratios or other balance of payments data employed in...
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In order to improve maritime human resources recruitment, most crewing and shipping companies implement an internal …
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Port cities as hubs for trade and exchange show the extremes of rapid growth and catastrophic decline: they show the …
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A port city's economy has historically depended upon its ability to adapt its port to political, economic, social, and … technological changes. After the 1960s, many working ports adapted to containerisation by moving away from outdated infrastructure …) in London, Tokyo, Hamburg and Philadelphia, examines these ports as places of economic resilience and innovation - and …
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number of ports (representing 32% of UK port activity) actually measure and report their carbon emissions in the UK context …This paper's purpose is to investigate the role of sea ports in helping to mitigate the GHG emissions associated with …. The paper is based on both the analysis of secondary data and information on actions taken by ports to reduce their …
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Government agreed with the Commission that allowing competitive tenders for the right to provide towage services at ports could …
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