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The purpose of this book is to provide guidance: it is a 'how to do it' book for marine surveyors and consultants and a 'what to expect' book for those who employ them. The use of the sea is growing. Transport, leisure and resource recovery all compete for scarce marine skills. This book describes those skills and how to harness them. Here you will find practical advice on running a survey and consultancy business. There is a review of employment opportunities and a detailed guide to all types of survey techniques.

Second edition A practical volume designed to be of considerable assistance to the student of shipping economics, this book provides explanations and examples covering a wide variety of shipping problems. Subjects covered include the elements of calculus, supply and demand, discriminating monopolies, marginal revenues and costs, optimum speed problems, size of ship, freight rates, balance of payments, Worldscale, freight indices, probability and correlation, programming and investment appraisal.

This book is part of a series which aims to provide helpful advice on the more practical aspects of ship operation and management. Contents: 1. Planning 2. Budgets 3. Accounting practices and procedures affecting ship managers 4. Arrangement – relationship of ship’s costs 5. Crew costs 6. Technical costs 7. Supplies costs 8. Insurance costs 9. Administration 10. Summary of costs departments 11. Control 12. Stock control 13. Purchasing , Quotations and Tenders 14. Economies and cutting back 15. The effects of ships’ management and operations on each other’s costs 16. Theories and practices

This book sets out simple guidelines which will help people in the marine industry to achieve their purpose when they write.

The report presents tables, maps and figures to outline the current, future, and possible LNG trades around the world. Data on the LNG fleet and vessels on order or under construction are also listed.

Contains port index for countries M-S (Macau to Syria), including plans, and advertisers' index.

A concise guide for the shipbroker on the origins of goods carried by sea, their basic characteristics and factors which should be taken into consideration in the drawing up of charterparties, together with useful information on their stowage, carriage and handling.

This publication brings the history and origin of the Rules and the Introduction of the Carriage of goods by Sea Act, 1924 and the Carriage of Good by Sea Act, 1971, giving the Rules legal effect in the United Kingdom.

This monograph on the ship which can be considered the 'workhorse of the oceans' is designed to provide a brief introduction to the construction and operation of bulk carriers. Bulk carriers themselves cover a wide range of ship types, from the small singledecker working the short sea routes through the simple bulkers that carry the raw products throughout the world's seas, to the sophisticated specialist sef-unloaders and the new breed of giant bulk carriers designed to be the ultimate in scale economy. This small book explains the rationale of bulk carrier operations and examines the application of the ship in relation to the world's freight markets.

This publication provides a wide selection of information on matters related to the shipping industry world-wide. This edition introduces fleet-lists into the shipowners section. Other sections cover shipbuilding, shiprepairing, marine enginerbuilding, towage and salvage, marine insurance, protection and indemnity associations, maritime organisations, shipping statistics, international business services and suppliers' directory and buyers' guide.

The purpose of this book is to provide details on a number of selected and important developments arising out of the governing legislation in maritime commerce, in the belief that these will hold a particular interest for commercial men engaged in day-to-day business of maritime commerce, and for others having a general or particular interest in such matters, including the student embarking on or about to embark upon a career in this field.

This book covers terminology involved with ship management; types of management in shipping and developments since sail; objectives, functions and constraints on management (including law, ethics, plans, budgets, controls, duties, responsibilities, policy and time); organising ship management; regulations and policies; communicating, controlling and informing; collecting and storing information; administration and accounts; crew; technical; supplies; insurance; owner and ship manager; master and chief engineer; manning and motivation; research and development; operations; and conclusions on how to manage a ship.

This book is an introduction to the work of the marine surveyor and it is hoped that it will be of interest to professionals contemplating a career as a marine surveyor, those who are in training and the enormous numbers of people who employ marine surveyors. The four sections cover determining the quantity loaded or discharged, determining the condition of the hull and/or equipment, determining the degree and cause of damage and determining the suitability of a compartment for cargo.

The intention of this book is to assist in training ship agents, and to provide an insight into agency business for shipowners, operators and charterers. The first chapters are an overview of marine transport in general. The middle chapters explain the legal relationships between the ship agent, the principal and third parties. The last chapters are my own observations of the tram agency business.

This book is written for an informed maritime readership, but one which may not have a detailed knowledge of financial practices employed in the complex world of ship finance. This is a practical handbook in which the procedures and terminology are fully covered. Both new and secondhand craft are covered, while the book details the financial appraisal of new projects, the use of foreign currency, taxation and leasing and other subjects vital when the purchase of ships or rigs are considered.

Second edition This new edition of Shipping Finance concentrates on fundamental and applied topics, such as project finance for new construction; bank loans for shipping acquisitions; investment appraisal techniques; foreign exchange; and taxation. These issues remain important irrespective of structural changes in the shipping finance world; and are also of interest to the shipowner, banker, shipbuilder, shipbroker and, certainly, the maritime-related studies of the university student.