The Handbook of Maritime Economics and Business, 2nd Edition

Part One: Shipping Economics and Maritime Nexus

Chapter 1. Maritime Business During the Twentieth Century: Continuity and Change GELINA HARLAFTIS & IOANNIS THEOTOKAS

Chapter 2. Globalisation - The Maritime Nexus JAN HOFFMANN & SHASHI KUMAR

Part Two: International Seaborne Trade

Chapter 3. Patterns of International Ocean Trade DOUGLAS K. FLEMING

Chapter 4. International Trade in Manufactured Goods MARY R. BROOKS

Chapter 5. Energy Economics and Trade MICHAEL TAMVAKIS

Chapter 6. Modal Split Functions for Simulating Decisions on Shifting Cargo from Road to Sea MANFRED ZACHCIAL

Part Three: Economics of Shipping Markets and Shipping Cycles

Chapter 7. The Economic of Shipping Freight Markets PATRICK M. ALDERTON & MERV ROWLINSON

Chapter 8. Economics of the Markets for Ships SIRI PETTERSEN STRANDENES

Chapter 9. Shipping Market Cycles MARTIN STOPFORD

Chapter 10. Recreating the Profit and Loss Account of Voyages of the Distant Past ANDREAS VERGOTTIS, WILLIAM HOMAN-RUSSELL, GORDON HUI & MICHALIS VOUTSINAS

Part Four: Economics of Shipping Sectors

Chapter 11. An Overview of the Dry Bulk Shipping Industry AMIR H. ALIZADEH & NIKOS K. NOMIKOS

Chapter 12. The Tanker Market: Current Structure and Economic Analysis DAVID GLEN & STEVE CHRISTY

Chapter 13. Economics of Short Sea Shipping ENRICO MUSSO, ANA CRISTINA PAIXAO CASACA & ANA RITA LYNCE

Part Five: Issues in Liner Shipping

Chapter 14 Competition and Cooperation in Liner Shipping WILLIAM SJOSTROM

Chapter 15. The Response of Liner Shipping Companies to the Evolution of Global Supply Chain Management TREVOR D. HEAVER

Part Six: Pollution and Vessel Safety

Chapter 16 Using Economic Measures for Global Control of Air Pollution from Ships SHUO MA

Chapter 17. Vessel Safety and Accident Analysis WAYNE K. TALLEY

Part Seven: National and International Shipping Policies

Chapter 18. Shipping Policy and Globalisation

Jurisdictions, Governance and Failure MICHAEL ROE

Chapter 19. Government Policies and the Shipbuilding Industry JOON SOO JON Part Eight: Aspects of Shipping Management and Operations

Chapter 20. The Impact of Choice of Flag on Ship Management KYRIAKI MITROUSSI & PETER MARLOW

Chapter 21. Fleet Operations Optimisation and Fleet Deployment - An Update ANASTASSIOS N. PERAKIS

Chapter 22. Measuring Business Performance in Shipping PHOTIS M. PANAYIDES, STEPHEN X. H. GONG & NEOPHYTOS LAMBERTIDES

Chapter 24. Valuing Maritime Investments with Real Options: The Right Course to Chart HELEN BENDALL

Chapter 25. Business Risk Measurement and Management in the Cargo Carrying Sector of the Shipping Industry - An Update MANOLIS G. KAVUSSANOS

Chapter 26. Managing Freight Rate Risk using Freight Derivatives: An Overview of the Empirical Evidence AMIR H. ALIZADEH & NIKOS K. NOMIKOS

Chapter 27. Revisiting Credit Risk, Analysis and Policy in Bank Shipping Finance COSTAS TH. GRAMMENOS

Chapter 28. Shipping Finance and International Capital Markets THEODORE C. SYRIOPOULOS

Chapter 29. Framing a Canvas for Shipping Strategy KURT J. VERMEULEN Part Ten: Port Economics and Management

Chapter 30. Port Management, Operation and Competition: A Focus on North Europe HILDE MEERSMAN & EDDY VAN DE VOORDE

Chapter 31. Revisiting the Productivity and Efficiency of Ports and Terminals: Methods and Applications KEVIN CULLINANE

Chapter 32. Organisational Change and Effectiveness in Seaports from a Systems Viewpoint CIMEN KARATAS CETIN & A. GULDEM CERIT

Chapter 33. The Economics of Motorways of the Sea: Re-defining Maritime Transport Infrastructure ALFRED J. BAIRD Part Eleven: Aspects of International Logistics

Chapter 34. International Logistics Strategy and Modal Choice KUNIO MIYASHITA

Chapter 35. IT in Logistics and Maritime Business ULLA TAPANINEN, LAURI OJALA & DAVID MENACHOF

Professor Costas Th. Grammenos, the editor, is a leading academic who has held a chair in Shipping, Trade and Finance at City University London's Cass Business School since 1986. He is founder of its International Centre for Shipping, Trade and Finance (1983), and was President of the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME). He was awarded a CBE (Hon) in 2009 for his contribution to teaching and research.