1. The shipping industry structure will be explained via the 5 competitive forces of Porter: THREAT OF NEW ENTRANTS | New entrants face entry barriers such as: Large financial resources required to invest in a container terminal or in a shipping line. There is a big time lag between the investment (buying cranes‚ ordering vessels) and the start of operations. Conferences among shipping lines will determine the price and other conditions of the market. Vertical integration between terminals
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Rationale Shipping services played a vital role in the development of modern economies. Nowadays‚ the shipping industry has grown tremendously with the introduction of highly sophisticated sea vessels. In the field of the shipping industry‚ computers are used by companies in order for them to have a quicker way in the issuance of tickets. A ticket gives the passenger the right to board a ship. It indicates that the passenger has paid for or is entitled to a specified service. In most cases‚ shipping companies
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Drybulk Shipping – Strategic Analysis By Hilmi Armoush HA519 Table of Contents Executive Summary 2 Macroeconomic Drivers 3 PESTEL Analysis 3 Key Drivers 4 Critical Uncertainties 4 Future Scenarios 6 Sailing in the Dark 6 Imbalance Seas 6 The Greener Wins 7 Sea Marathon 8 Competitive Analyses – Drybulk Shipping 8 Market Outlook 8 Porter Five Forces Model 9 Entry Barriers 9 Threat of Substitutes 10 Bargaining Power of Buyers 10 Bargaining Power of Suppliers 10 Rivalry between
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Read "The Wallace Group‚" Case below and answer the following questions. 1. What is the most important problem facing the Wallace Group? 2. What recommendation(s) would you make to Mr. Wallace‚ and in what order of priorities? 3. How do you educate a manager to manage an organization as it evolves over time from an entrepreneurial structure to a more sophisticated and complex organizational structure? The Wallace Group By: Laurence J Stybel Frances Rampar‚ President of Rampar
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Assignment #4: Case Problem “Stateline Shipping and Transport Company” Courtney Boone June 10‚ 2012 MATH 540 Quantitative Methods Professor Gelonia Dent Rachel has estimated the cost of shipping a barrel of waste from each of the six plants to each of the three waste disposal sites as shown in the following table: Waste Disposal Site | | | | Plant | Whitewater | Los Canos | Duras | Kingsport | $12 | $15 | $17 | Danville | 14 | 9 | 10 | Macon | 13 | 20 | 11 | Selma | 17
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Assignment #4: Case Problem "Stateline Shipping and Transport Company" Read the ’Stateline Shipping and Transport Company" Case Problem on pages 273-274 of the text. Analyze this case‚ as follows: In Excel‚ or other suitable program‚ develop a model for shipping the waste directly from the 6 plants to the 3 waste disposal sites. Solve the model you developed in #1 (above) and clearly describe the results. In Excel‚ or other suitable program‚ Develop a transshipment model in which each of the
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MERCHANT SHIPPING ORDINANCE 1952 MERCHANT SHIPPING (CENTRAL MERCANTILE MARINE FUND) RULES 1984 In exercise of the power conferred by subsection (8) of section 467 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance 1952‚ the Minister makes the following rules: 1. These Rules may be cited as the Merchant Shipping ( Central Mercantile Marine Fund) Rules 1984 . 2. In these Rules‚ unless the context otherwise requires- "adopted children"- (a) in relation to a seaman who does not profess the religion of Islam‚
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plant ‘i’ to the j-th waste disposal site‚ where i = 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 4‚ 5‚ 6 and j = A‚ B‚ C. The objective function of the manager is to minimize the total transportation cost for all shipments. Thus the objective function is the sum of the individual shipping costs from each plant to each waste disposal site: Minimize Z = 12+ 15+ 17+ 14+ 9+ 10+ 13+ 20 +11 +17 +16 +19 +7 +14 +12 +22 +16 +18 The constraints in the model are the number of barrels of wastes available per week at each plant and the number
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about is something other than a man. My initial thought was this should be an easy enough test for a movie or TV Show to pass. I thought I would just choose the last threes movies I have seen lately but instead I decided to make a small experiment out of it. Being that there are three females in my house and only one male I decided to let everyone pick a movie they have seen recently that they liked and we would see it passed the three simple rules of the test. Going into this I must admit I thought
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The Wallace group is devised from three sub-groups as: Electronics‚ Chemicals and Plastics. Harold Wallace was the original owner of the electronics company‚ but now has 45% of the stock and runs the group as Chairman and President after acquiring the plastics company and then the chemical company. But each of the three groups is run by a Vice President. Recently‚ Hal Wallace asked Rampar to conduct a series of interviews with some key Wallace Group employees‚ in preparation for a possible consulting
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