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Maritime Logistics
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Maritime Logistics

A complete guide to effective shipping and port management

Dong-Wook Song and Photis M. Panayides
Kogan Page, 2012

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Recommendation

Without maritime transport, the global economy would be dead in the water. And without maritime logistics, maritime transport would be grossly inefficient. The cost of all goods shipped by seaborne transportation – which is just about everything – would skyrocket. Distinguished maritime logistics scholars Dong-Wook Song and Photis M. Panayides have compiled essays by expert academics covering transport and shipping economics, maritime business administration, transport research, international logistics, supply chains and related fields. While this is a specialized book for scholars and those who understand the mathematical mechanisms behind maritime logistics – like “discriminant validity,” “structural equation modeling multivariate non-normality” and “squared interconstruct correlations” – readers who can’t decipher these dry, relatively rarefied concepts can skip them and still come away with a workable, in-depth understanding of maritime logistics. The text, while academic and sometimes a bit repetitive, is a true insiders’ manual. getAbstract recommends these astute essays to logistics managers and anyone who needs to learn about maritime transport.

Take-Aways

  • The world economy depends on maritime transport, which relies on maritime logistics.
  • “The process of planning, implementing and managing the movement of goods and information involved in ocean carriage” is maritime logistics.
  • The growth in global commerce has changed seaborne shipping, which handles 85% of international trade.

About the Authors

Dong-Wook Song is a lecturer in maritime logistics at the Logistics Research Center at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland. Photis M. Panayides is an associate professor in shipping economics at the Cyprus University of Technology in Cyprus.

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