85). Newly independent countries joined in the shipping industry as a way of demonstrating their economic independence, leading to an increase in the number of open registers as owners in the traditional maritime countries could now register in cou Continue Reading...
Future of Unions in Labor Relations Unions came about from the struggles and pain that individuals had to go through early on in history. Unions were something that did not spring up overnight, but rather took a great deal of time to develop as indi Continue Reading...
Shipping News by Annie Proulx tells the story of Quoyle, a man who begins the book naive, buffeted by life, and passive, but by the end has earned his place in a small town in Newfoundland. Quoyle, unsure of himself and troubled by his looks, allows Continue Reading...
Shipping News In her novel The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx brings to life a Newfoundland fishing town and a small group of its inhabitants - a more-or-less failed journalist and the three women in his life - his two daughters and his aunt. The f Continue Reading...
Organizing Assuming the role of Itza Yu, explain the role of a manager in the organizing phase of the POLC and identify and discuss five major issues that Itza Yu must address in organizing the production floor for both existing production and the n Continue Reading...
Outsourcing Shipping Management Outsourcing is a process by which an organization takes the services of an external party to perform some of its operations or functions. Outsourcing is also done by shipping firms all over the Globe (Outsource Freigh Continue Reading...
Homeowners and small farmers in windy, flat areas are already using the wind as a source of power. However, the use of wind energy is problematic: the wind provides an intermittent source of energy, and once captured, it must be rationed carefully. Continue Reading...
Caribbean Express Shipping The forthcoming study will present a training program, designed to specifically address and help foster changes that need to be made in three Palm Beach, Florida CES stores which currently experience a reported increase in Continue Reading...
However, the biggest growth opportunity for UPS is in foreign markets. The company already operates in 175 different countries and territories and the company is further expanding logistics capabilities to become more integrated as a supply chain pa Continue Reading...
Technology, Transportation, and Society - Then, Now and the Near Future Technology, transportation and society are three areas that are interlinked. Technology determines what transportation will exist. The transportation that exists determines how Continue Reading...
To succeed in a highly dynamic and competitive environment, business organizations must effectively execute their planning activities. They must judiciously formulate their long- and short-term goals and objectives. This ensures better anticipation o Continue Reading...
To a degree, all freight transported across vast geographic distances requires multiple modalities and methods combining land and sea. The advent of airborne shipping options in the twentieth century introduced yet another element into the portfolio Continue Reading...
As the term suggest, liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas that has been reduced to a liquid by cooling it to minus 161°C thereby eliminating oxygen, carbon dioxide and other unwanted components to achieve almost pure methane (Liquefied Na Continue Reading...
Where we are now with Walmart is at a critical juncture in retail. Amazon and e-commerce has continued to dominate the retail space once led by brick-and-mortars. Walmart has had to shift its focus from being a primarily brick-and-mortar store chain Continue Reading...
Both goods and services can be provided to a diverse group of people, provided that diversity is properly addressed and acknowledged (Ragin, 1994). The changing face of globalization will also require that the labor market do some changing. More pe Continue Reading...
In either case, privacy issues were known to be much more complicated than mere issues of personal secrecy. In fact, as Richard Posner suggested more than 20 years ago, there is a fundamental economics of personal privacy -- an economics that is in Continue Reading...
Sri Lanka's Openness To Future Business And Investments Give an overview of Sri-Lanka and then make a recommendation about it and conclusion. The official name of the country is Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. The capital is Colombo and Continue Reading...
History The muddy estuary (rotta) of the Maas River became a settlement in the 10th century CE. A few hundred years later, a dam was built in the rotta, giving the fledgling seaport its name: Rotterdam. By the 14th century the Rotterdam Schie, or shi Continue Reading...
How Container Tracking Devices will Facilitate International Intermodal Transport When bar codes were first used to track freight cars on trains more than 60 years ago, these innovations revolutionized the national transportation system because of th Continue Reading...
Community-Based Correction Program The sentencing systems and incarceration programs that are established have four traditional, primary goals: incapacitation, punishment, deterrence and rehabilitation (Wright, 2010, p. 3). In devising this proposed Continue Reading...
Sino-U.S. Relations in the Post-Cold War Era Today, China and the United States are inextricably linked in the modern world and some observers maintain that any disagreements that emerge between the two countries are relatively insignificant and wil Continue Reading...
Taiping Carpet Generally, companies that ship products to other companies and/or individuals have contracts with at least one shipping company (Bannock, 1997; Ziegler & Aguilar, 2003). Other companies have many shipping options and allow the per Continue Reading...
This comes as a dramatic turnaround from Chang's statements to the Economist only six months ago, in which he indicated that the company was preparing to scrap part of its large fleet in addition to halting orders for new ships (2009, pp. 57). The r Continue Reading...
gas prices are on the rise and possible solutions for the problems! One of the fundamental laws in economics is that the price of any item is determined through the laws of supply and demand. Thus to judge this question it is important to look into Continue Reading...
While digitalization has been shown to positively influence customer satisfaction in organizations in diverse sectors and industries, there has been little scholarly attention to the port industry. Focusing on APM Terminals, one of the largest contai Continue Reading...
In business, the significance of customer satisfaction cannot be overemphasized. Indeed, with increasingly many firms providing similar goods or services, dissatisfied customers can easily look for other alternatives. Accordingly, firms do whatever i Continue Reading...
Future Global Corporate Strategy and International Management The emergence of strategic management has always been attached to military history (Tallman, 2007). Studies in this area reveal various examples where the strategic management of offensiv Continue Reading...
Future of IKEA / IKEA: Challenges and Solutions IKEA IKEA was started just before the end of the Second World War. Ingvar Kamprad who was in his late teens at the time, named the company after himself, his farm named Elmtaryd and the place where he Continue Reading...
Therefore the consequences of such restrictions and regulations have further complicated the case, the research activities have been either shunned or go unreported to avoid any confrontation with the investigation agencies, 'the climate of fear cre Continue Reading...
Packaging Materials Comparison In the contemporary era, there is a hot debate going on regarding the usage of paper-based shipping container, wood-based shipping container, plastic-based shipping container or retail shipping package. Thus, this cont Continue Reading...
Maritime transit is generally considered the lowest cost and lowest pollutant emitting source of all available alternatives. However the sheer number of vessels in transit at any one time is still large enough to warrant concern among the environmen Continue Reading...
Guillermo Capital Budgeting Guillermo is faced with a difficult operating environment. Competition has intensified, and this is driving down his margins. At the same time, labor costs are rising. This is putting a squeeze on Guillermo. At present, i Continue Reading...
Social Impact of Cold War & Terrorism The Cold War is often associated with the idea of making great and physical divides between the good and the bad of the world. It was a symbolic representation that extended for about 30 years on the expecta Continue Reading...
Blue Nile Porter's five forces analysis focuses on the factors that influence a firm's ability to earn a profit: the bargaining power of buyers, the bargaining power of suppliers, the threat of substitutes, the threat of new entrants and the intensi Continue Reading...
Maintaining Peak Efficiency: Shipyards, the Merchant Marine Fleet, and New Technology Saudi Arabia, in order to develop a powerful maritime economy, should take note from the actions and attitudes of other maritime nations such as Norway. The Norw Continue Reading...
At the time, the industry sought to examine both oil pollution in general and ocean dumping as well as land-based sources of ocean pollution. According to Wang, "More significant was the rapid technological development in the design of large-sized o Continue Reading...
FedEx Applying Strategic Market Planning to FedEx Marketing Foundations FedEx (NYSE: FDX) is one of the leading providers of global logistics services to the Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business-to-Consumer (B2C) marketplaces globally. FedEx is Continue Reading...
