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    Ballast - (a) the material (usually water in ballast tanks) used to stabilise a vessel when partially loaded or empty‚ (b) In Ballast - term to describe vessel sailing empty to next loading port. BENDS - Abbreviation for ’both ends’. Used when any loading and discharging term for a vessel is the same for both loading and discharging operations. BFI - Baltic Freight Index - an index reflecting a composite number of routes‚ issued on a daily basis. BIFFEX - Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange

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    Cruise Shipping in Jamaica According to Greekwise.com (N/A)‚ a cruise ship is a passenger ship used for vacations or pleasure trips‚ they are usually very large and are able to accommodate hundreds to thousands of people. This all depends on the size of the ship. These ships generally make round-trips‚ returning to their first port of departure after a certain number of days at sea. Cruise ships make stops at various ports‚ where passengers are allowed to leave the ships and explore as they wish

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    What are the advantages and disadvantages of principles-based accounting? Perhaps the primary benefit of principles-based accounting rests in its broad guidelines that can be applied to numerous situations. Broad principles avoid the pitfalls associated with precise requirements that allow contracts to be written specifically to manipulate their intent. A 1981 study sponsored by FASB found evidence that managers purposefully try to structure leases as operating leases to avoid incurring additional

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    importance of resource-based sources of competitive advantage in one of the industries studied on this module. You should discuss a range of companies. ‘Competitive advantage’ is when a firm sustains profits that exceed the average for its industry. The goal of much of business strategy is to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. Porter identified two basic types of competitive advantage; cost and differentiation. These two advantages are known as ‘positional advantages’ as they describe

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    Shipping Market Cycles

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    3 Shipping Market Cycles The four most expensive words in the English language are‚ ‘This time it’s different’. (Sir John Templeton‚ quoted in Devil Take the Hindmost‚ Chancellor 1999‚ p. 191) 3.1 INTRODUCING THE SHIPPING CYCLE Market cycles pervade the shipping industry. As one shipowner put it: ‘When I wake up in the morning and freight rates are high I feel good. When they are low I feel bad’.1 Just as the weather dominates the lives of seafarers‚ so the waves of shipping cycles

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    Inland Shipping Waterways

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    and a person’s maximum willingness to pay for the product and the net profit and benefit he will receive from the transaction. Question 2A Which variables (in the dataset or not) do you expect to have a significant impact on the demand for shipping? Do you expect these variables to have a positive or negative effect? Do you expect a small or large effect? Capacity - Carrying capacity of the inland ship in tones This variable has a positive effect on the demand function. A larger capacity

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    Economy Shipping Company

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    Rachel Darrough Finance 431 9/17/12 Economy Shipping Company (Abridged) – Case #5 Spring of 1950‚ Economy Shipping Company in Pittsburgh was deciding to repair‚ the Conway‚ one of their steam riverboats or to just replace it with a new diesel-powered boat. Currently all the boats owned by Economy were steam-powered and were at least 10 years old‚ majority being 15-30 years old. The Conway was 23 years old and was in dire need of renovation or replacement. The best recommendation I have to offer

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    ng EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF INDIA OCCASIONAL PAPER NO. 142 INDIAN SHIPPING INDUSTRY: A CATALYST FOR GROWTH Exim Bank’s Occasional Paper Series is an attempt to disseminate the findings of research studies carried out in the Bank. The results of research studies can interest exporters‚ policy makers‚ industrialists‚ export promotion agencies as well as researchers. However‚ views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Bank. While reasonable care has been taken to ensure authenticity

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    shipping case study

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    What’s the case mainly about?  The case is mainly about how Cathay Pacific to manage aviation spare part and optimal its  aviation spare part management process‚ so as to reduce the huge cost by on this. Cathay Pacific  is one of the leading companies in the airline industry‚ however‚ it also suffer from the high cost  in managing spare part inventory. Cathay Pacific was founded in 1946‚ which provide only a few  route with a small passenger plane at that time. It is a company that is innovative on using new 

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    AGGRAVATED ASSAULT Jouca Young Strayer University CRJ 105 L. Hanson April 22‚ 2010 AGGRAVATED ASSAULT Aggravated assault is a more serious form of threat than an ordinary assault. This may be because the threat is made with a deadly weapon‚ or with the intent to rape or murder. Also most victims have been associated with the person attaching them. A violent crime is a crime in which the offender uses or threatens to use violent force upon the victim. Violent crimes include crimes committed

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