Shipping Industries

Cruise ships are the single largest passenger conveyances in the world, with one ship currently in service that can carry more than 8,500 passenger...

Harland and Wolff, once acknowledged as the greatest and best-known shipbuilding company in the world, for many years enjoyed a mighty eminence bef...

70 per cent of the planet is covered by water, and 90 per cent of global economic trade is transported by sea. The world's seas and oceans are big ...

The shipping industry is one of constant, dramatic change. Driven by a multitude of factors, including globalisation, technological advances, the d...

An award-winning investigation into the strange and secretive world of international shipping 'Arresting, sharply observed, deeply researched and ...

The port of New York has been a centre for trade since the eighteenth century, when it was involved in trade between Europe, Africa and North Ameri...

The classic Business of Shipping (now in its ninth edition) remains North Americas most comprehensive industry-focused book that explains and analy...

Since the classic ''age of sail'', there has been a constant growth in maritime shipping and trading. Furthermore, the love of the sea and the inte...

During World War I, the American Merchant Marine meant dangerous duty. Sailors on cargo ships faced the daily threat of enemy submarines, along ...

It was a golden age of travel. The period from the end of the Second World War to the early 1960s saw some of the finest ocean liners ever built an...

Developments in Maritime Transportation and Exploitation of Sea Resources covers recent developments in maritime transportation and exploitation of...