Innovation in chemicals shipping: Port and slops management: solving not shifting

Civil Engineering and Geoscience

Dynamics of national fleet development: Simulation models for maritime planners in developing countries

Civil Engineering and Geoscience

Second European Research Roundtable Conference on Shortsea Shipping: Strategies for achieving cohesion in Europe through shortsea shippping, Athens/Vouliagmeni, 2-3 June 1994: Conference papers

Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineerin

Shipping

Shipping is a multi-faceted industry which is rather complex to define from an academic point of view. This book attempts to grasp these complexities and provide the reader with an overview of the main topics and terminology in shipping. The book is based on material from our courses in shipping at the universities in Delft and Bergen. As with our lectures, we draw upon quite a va ried material, from research studies at a high academic level to lower level student work and purely descriptive material from a multitude of sources. No particular attempts have been made to make all figures very updated. The reference years for descriptive data varies a lot, therefore . The book aims at being a useful textbook for students in engineering, economics and logistics and could be used both at an elementary introductory level as weil as on higher levels up to MBA. There are two distinct contributions in this book, which represent our respective backgrounds in engineering/operations and economics. We are of course indebted to many people, and many are particularly mentioned in the Chapter Notes. The book has been made with record speed, simply because we wanted it out to an audience which is invited to give us feedback. If this book fills a role in the teaching of shipping, we will certainly consider making a larger, more researched and more updated future vers ion, with fewer language errors and maybe even a keyword index

Design Innovation in Shipping: The only constant is change

Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineerin

Analysis of the containership chartermarket 1983-1992: In relation to the design characteristics of containerships

What is a good containership? This depends to a large extent on the perspective of the person answering the question, such as the shipowner, the naval architect, the shipyard, the banker, the terminal operator, etcetera. This book attempts to answer the question from the perspective of the chartermarket. How do containerships actually perform and do some ships consistently out- or under perform the market-average? The rationale for the study is the wellknown expression from the stockexchange "The market is always right". In order to base the answers on a sufficiently number of data, we have taken the ten year period from 1983 to 1992, covering some 7000 charterfixtu res. The analysis draws an indepth picture of the containership chartermarket and shows the ships which have above or below average performance. This group of ships is further analysed in terms of design characteristics, which represents valuable feedback from the market to the shipdesigners. Therefore the book is a must for all those involved in the design, operation, chartering, shipbroking and financing of containerships.Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineerin

European Shortsea Shipping: Proceedings from the second European Research Roundtable conference on Shortsea Shipping. Strategies for achieving cohesion in Europe through shortsea shipping, 2-3 June 1994, Athens/Vouliagmeni

Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineerin

Analysis of the Panamax bulk carrier charter market 1989-1994 in relation to the design characteristics

Panamax bulk carriers form the largest homogeneous shiptype-group in the world fleet. The H. Clarkson database contained in 1994, 834 of these ships, in a dead-weight range of 50.000-76.000 tons. The dimensions of panamax vessels are restricted by the dimensions of the locks of the Panama Canal, especially the beam. Shipowners and shipyards have put a lot of effort into maximising the deadweight of the vessels within these restrictions. The question is: Does the market honour this effort with higher charter rates? In other words: Is there a relation between the design characteristics and the charter market performance? This study has analysed approximately 10.000 of the published fixtures over the period 1989-1994, and related the charter rates to the dsign characteristics of the bulk carriers. This book is important for shipowners, shipbrokers, shipyards, naval architects, financial institutions, classification societies and all others involved in the bulk shipping industry.Delft University of Technolog