固体散货运输船舶自沉事故分析与对策

针对中国沿海固体散货运输船舶自沉事故高发的现状,应用事故数据统计和案例分析的方法,对中国沿海发生的固体散货运输船舶自沉事故进行了深入分析,并提出相应的对策。     

论国内钢材运输船舶安全管理

文章以沿海发生的钢材运输船舶的倾覆事故或倾斜险情案例为基础,分析了倾覆事故或倾斜险情的原因,指出了钢材运输船舶海上运输的特点和存在的问题,结合当前航运形势提出钢材运输船舶安全管理建议。     

析台州沿海船舶碰撞事故多发的原因及对策

0引言台州市位于浙江沿海的中南部,渔业船舶进出海门、松门、石塘等港湾,必然会与南来北往的商业运输船舶航行时交叉,因而经常会发生渔商船舶碰撞事故。     

船舶委托经营管理方式探讨

一、温州市船舶委托经营管理现状运输船舶委托经营管理是交通部为落实个体船舶企业化经营管理而推出的一项重要措施。浙江省港航管理局按照交通部要求，2005年对个体船舶提出了实行公司化管理的思路，并将这项工作列为“十一五”重点工作，温州市从事省际运输的个体船舶开始了公司化的经营发展模式。目前，温州个体经营的沿海船舶全部采用了委托经营管理方式从事国内水路运输。     

地方船检体制亟待改革

船舶检验是为保证航行安全而建立的对于船舶实行技术鉴定的制度，我国水上运输船舶实行的是法定检验制度，即船舶必须经船检机构检验合格后才能从事水上运输。近几年来，随着水上运输市场的迅速发展，造船业蒸蒸日上，尤其是民营造船厂、滩涂造船厂蜂拥而上，大量低质量船舶应运而生，向来被认为保证船舶质量第一道防线的船舶检验成为社会舆论的焦点。2005年初，“金富星18”、“兴龙舟118”、“恒信6”等三艘船舶相继发生严重的船舶质量事故。     

海上安全因素的变化及对策

最近，对一家海上运输企业进行了调研，对企业近30年来发生的各类事故进行统计和分析。有几个现象值得我们关注。从事故发生的地点来看，在中国沿海发生约占事故总数的48％。由此，我们认为中国沿海是事故相对多发地。究其原因，既有中国船舶进出家门口的机会较多，也有中国沿海通航密度大，各类船舶在海上操作或作业缺少协调性，     

海上安全因素的变化及对策

最近，对一家海上运输企业进行了调研，对企业近30年来发生的各类事故进行统计和分析。有几个现象值得我们关注。从事故发生的地点来看，在中国沿海发生约占事故总数的48％。由此，我们认为中国沿海是事故相对多发地。究其原因，既有中国船舶进出家门口的机会较多，也有中国沿海通航密度大，各类船舶在海上操作或作业缺少协调性，     

建立油污损害赔偿基金是当务之急

随着航运业的快速发展,船舶污染事故给海洋环境带来的潜在威胁越来越大。在“2005年上海国际海事论坛”上事关石油货主和承运人利益的“油污损害赔偿基金”成为本次论坛的主题。船舶溢油事故风险在增大因海上交通事故而引发大规模石油污染的可能性随着石油运输量的猛增而上升。     

上海船舶运输科学研究所与荷兰海事研究所开展技术合作

2005年12月6日至12月9日，“2005中国国际海事技术展览会”在上海新国际博览中心隆重举行。上海船舶运输科学研究所（SSSRI）联合荷兰海事研究所（MARIN）参加了此次海事盛会。     

船舶油污损害赔偿基金有望明年推出

随着越来越多的超大型油轮频繁出现在中国海域，船舶溢油事故风险不断加大，船舶油污损害赔偿机制的建立刻不容缓。中国海事局常务副局长刘功臣在2007年上海国际海事论坛新闻通气会上表示，船舶油污损害赔偿基金有望明年推出，保证溢油事故得到及时有效处置。近年来，中国水运经济一直保持快速增长势头。2006年航行于中国沿海水域的船舶已达464万艘次，     

The economics of technological change in shipping

Management of technological change is among the most important problems in shipping management. Models representing the economic impact of technological change in shipping are presented and the use of technology productivity analysis as a method for effective management of technological change in shipping is proposed.     

基于精益管理的特种航运信息集成优化系统设计与实现——以中交国际航运有限公司为例

文章以从事半潜船特种航运服务业的中交国际航运有限公司为研究对象,对企业实际管理运营的关键环节即航运信息系统进行研究,设计和实现了针对特种航运业的信息集成优化管理系统。结合公司的管理需求以资源的合理调度和项目的科学管控为主要目的来设计,实现了公司日常管理工作的协同办公与网络实时监控,为企业的基础信息动态实时管理、成本维护、航线优化和船舶调度提供了科学和有效的方法,为企业提高了运营效率,减少了资源浪费。     

Overseas trade vis-a-vis overseas shipping: Growth and performance in India (1999–2009)

Maritime trade has been and even continues to account for about a lion's share of India's total cargo volumes. Despite the growth of multimodal transport (by land, water and air), shipping still continues to be the major mode of transport in the bulk carriage of country's overseas trade. In view of this vital role of shipping, in the first four decades of independence, under the initiative of planned development and active government support, India's shipping and port sector saw dramatic growth in their performance to build adequate national fleet, in keeping up with the transport of overseas cargo. However, the onset of economic liberalization in 1991 has given rise to many new dimensions in the development of the shipping and port sector of the country with a significant redefinition of shipping and port services, in response to the new global trend patterns. For instance, it has also established the new era of containerization in the mode of cargo delivery from the dominance of the era of bulk and break-bulk trade during the decade of sixties and seventies. Moreover, as global competition increases, in response to this emerging trade patterns within this country, India's volume of traffic growth also increases manifold. So, India's shipping and port sectors need, significantly, to build up and furnish their capacity by increasing the frequency of this mode of transport i.e. the growth of the national overseas fleet to meet this surging demand. This paper, therefore, have focused on this role of shipping in such rising overseas trade, with a view to examine the shipping performance (the growth of overseas fleet) in response to the growing overseas trade at all ports of India during the period (1999–2000 to 2008–2009), in terms of both a mathematical model and a graphical representation. Finally, it concludes that the absolute overseas trade, being highly import dependent, have led to a more or less stagnant performance in overseas shipping, owing to the lack of the adequate growth of absolute overseas exports during this period.     

A citation network analysis of sustainability development in liner shipping management: a review of the literature and policy implications

ABSTRACT

Based on an analysis of 253 related papers drawn from the Web of Science database, this study examines holistic sustainability research in liner shipping management literature using a citation network analysis (CNA) approach followed by a qualitative analysis of findings. We identify four major research domains, namely shipping performance, port selection and management, shipping markets, and environment, as well as related sub-domains of shipping performance. We discuss the current research trends and focal issues in these domains with a focus on their implications for policy development. Our results indicate that while the sustainability discourse in the literature has developed and matured significantly over the last decade, generating valuable insights for practitioners and regulators alike, it still struggles with blurry terminology and a lack of holistic frameworks jointly addressing the different aspects of sustainability: Economic considerations of liner shipping are still the main concern, while environmental and social issues are less regarded in the academic discourse. Furthermore, we identify a dearth of studies rooted in managerial or economic theory. In this regard, our study provides insights on the scope of the holistic sustainability discourse in liner shipping management, its contributions to theory and practice, and its implications for the further development of policies addressing sustainability in liner shipping management. We advocate further construct development for sustainability in liner shipping, as well as empirical tests of the antecedents of sustainability practice adoption in the industry for future research.     

The human talent and its role in ISM Code effectiveness and competitiveness in the shipping industry

The present study empirically evaluates the role of human talent in the effective implementation of quality management systems in the shipping industry context. Specifically, we analyze the relationships among top management commitment to quality, ISM (International Safety Management) Code effectiveness and competitiveness as well as we assess the influence of talent in these associations. We test our research hypotheses using a sample of 199 shipping companies located in Greece. The findings show that ISM Code effectiveness acts as a mediator between top management commitment and shipping company competitiveness, while the different talent philosophies were found to moderate this relationship.     

Shipping's fourth wave: ship management and Vernon's trade cycles

This paper considers the question whether the present recovery of shipping means a return to pre-crisis conditions with hegemony of OECD shipping or whether shipping has irrevocably changed. Shipping is losing its national character as ship management firms contribute towards the fragmenting of traditional ship-owning firms into separately managed activities, making shipping more footloose as an industry and facilitating relocation in least cost factor markets. Trade cycles may be at work in shipping like those observed in many industrial markets, beyond the scope of any single government's ability to control. The dispersion of shipping and shipping firms away from the historical concentration in a few traditional maritime powers towards low-cost countries must be seen as a manifestation of a secular trend, giving rise to a profound reorganization not only of shipping markets but of shipping itself.     

Management and labour in shipping: A role for co-operatives

The employment and management policies of the shipping industry are in legal and administrative confusion. The shipping industry is struggling with an unworkable global governance based on flag state sovereignty and a sanctionless international regulatory regime. Seafarers suffer most from this state of affairs, but so do the shipping industry’s public image. Few co-operatives of maritime workers exist in national or international shipping. A new employment theory is long overdue. Human centred management policies can only attain their full potential through co-operative or mutual associations. This paper describes the application of enlightened and socially conscious management principles to the shipping industry. Seafarers’ co-operatives are the future organisational building blocks of the shipping industry. Co-operatives can rescue maritime workers from developing countries from exploitation and the debilitating effects of casual labour by providing “all in one” seagoing and shore based professional careers. Seafarers’ co-operatives can solve the shipping industry’s maritime training and education problems. The seven universal principles of co-operative management will guide shipping management in setting human centred objectives that command respect of those who come in contact with the shipping industry.     

The Nigerian shipping industry and indigenous shipping companies

The shipping industry in Nigeria since the early 1990s has been experiencing a continuous disastrous downturn. Nigerian shipping companies' participation in international shipping has continued to be very limited. Their presence and impact is hardly felt in the world's shipping industry. Both the national carriers (that is shipping companies with national carrier status) and other indigenous private shipping companies have vessel as well as management problems. These problems have led to the poor performance of the Nigerian shipping industry for over a decade now. The carriers in the industry are not attaining for the country the gains that are supposed to emanate from shipping. This paper points out the importance of shipping to a nation, identifies the problems the country's shipping companies are facing and proffers solutions that include merging of the companies to have strong financial standing and a competitive edge.     

Complexity theory applied to management of shipping companies

Theory of complexity , in the author's opinion, describes life better than the hitherto available theories, as it deals more effectively with dynamic, non-linear and cyclical phenomena. The author will here attempt the application of the theory of complexity to the management of shipping companies , especially those of Greek management style. This paper will also deal with the relationship of competition in shipping. The question that will be put and answered is whether a firm should be a hierarchical, inflexible structure, ordered from above. If, however, a company is seen as a self-organized emerging order, then a new approach must be adopted, i.e. that of complexity theory. The choice of the above combination is because a shipping environment is indeed unpredictable, volatile, cyclical and international, as well as complex. It is believed that this new theory can yield a new, more pragmatic, insight into the way shipping companies and ships should be managed. The innovative element of this work is that it will be the first time internationally (except for the work of Li and Parsons [1]) that the theory of complexity will be applied to shipping. In addition, no previous attempts have been made to apply this theory to management of shipping companies.     

Managing culturally diverse maritime human resources as a shipping company’s core competency

ABSTRACT

The last few years a great body of research focused on the problems observed in the shipping industry due to the mix of different nationalities on board. Herein, the problem is observed in the managerial level, and specifically to the applied crew management strategies and the philosophy of the shipping companies regarding the issue of multiculturalism. The present paper seeks to elevate the value of human resources in shipping and to underline the potentials that human resource management and cultural diversity management have as a shipping company’s core competency. In a triangulated theoretical framework, the combination of resource-based view, human resource management, and cultural diversity management leads to a framework of choices which include strategies for the management of maritime human resources’ cultural diversity. The paper analyses the practical application of the proposed strategies and the fulfilment of the criteria required for turning crew management to a core competency and gaining sustainable competitive advantage from human resources.