Castrillon, Robert

Globalization of the world’s economy, containerization, intermodalism and specialization have reshaped transport systems and the industries that are considered crucial for the international distribution of goods such as the port industry. Simultaneously, economies of location, economies of scope, economies of scale, optimization of production factors, and clustering of industries have triggered port regionalization and inland integration of port services especially those provided by container te...

Morriss, Veronica Marie

In ancient Egypt, the Nile was both a lifeline and a highway. In addition to its crucial role for agriculture and water resources, the river united an area nearly five hundred miles in length. It was an avenue for asserting imperial authority over the vast expanse of the Nile valley River transport along the inland waterways was also an integral aspect of daily life and was employed by virtually every class of society; the king and his officials had ships for commuting, as did the landowner fo...

Lützhöft, Margareta

Several recent maritime accidents suggest that modern technology sometimes can make it difficult for mariners to navigate safely. A review of the literature also indicates that the technological remedies designed to prevent maritime accidents at times can be ineffective or counterproductive. To understand why, problem-oriented ethnography was used to collect and analyse data on how mariners understand their work and their tools. Over 4 years, 15 ships were visited; the ship types studied were sm...

Metaparti, Satya Prakash.

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Majewski, Edward John, Jr.

Current Maritime Strategy envisions forward flanking operations for the U.S. Navy in a future war. Soviet development and future deployment of submarine-launched cruise missiles(SLCMs) in a strategic mode, specifically their SS-NX-21's and SS-NX-24's, pose different problems to our present maritime plans which envision our fleets and forces engaged away from home waters. Land-attack(SLA) SLCMs, if deployed in platforms off our or allied coasts, will impact upon deployment, development and engage...

Williams, Dock David.

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Shaheen, Frederick F.

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Carpenter, Jack R.

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Martin, Thomas James

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Wylie, Elizabeth G.

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LaDouce, Ralph Jeffrey

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Ebersole, Kenneth A.

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Zientek, James B.

The expanding economic and political power of China and India have led each country to extend its naval operations into the other's region of influence in order to safeguard economic/national interests. This expansion has led to suspicion and increased tension between the two countries. The thesis postulates that the continued operational expansion of China and India's naval forces into each other's claimed maritime domain is likely to trigger alliance formations and a naval arms buildup between...

Woodard, Jimmy Clifford.

Approved for public release; distribution unlimited / This thesis examines the evolution, and theoretical basis of the United States' maritime strategy in the North Atlantic and what is referred to as NATO's Northern Flank. The strategy associated with past Secretary of the Navy, John Lehman, is no longer considered applicable in the context of today's East-west relationship and is in need of reassessment. The paper then assesses the current, post Cold War situation and looks at future securit...

Wiley, Janet, Barrett, Sharon

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. / The movement of supplies from ship to shore to support military forces in or near combat areas has historically been difficult and time consuming. The Marine Corps and the Army have developed their own systems for satisfying their logistical needs. The Marine Corps has embraced the prepositioning concept, while the Army has relied on moving forces and utilizing logistics over the shore capabilities. Regardless of the offload method used, ...

Puskeppeleit, Monika Petra

Background: Using telemedicine to provide health services for seafarers represents a special case of intersectoral co-operation.Since 2006, several North Sea drilling platforms and internationally operating Norwegian merchant ships have usedonboard telemedicine equipment continuously. Experience gained through this new technology has improvedintersectoral co-operation regarding seafarers’ health care. Aim: This study aimed to analyze the need for intersectoral co-operation and networking in mari...

Briede, Robert K.

Approved for public release, distribution unlimited / This thesis examines a method for optimizing the effectiveness bf existing sealift fleets given a limited budget. A brief background of U.S. military mobility is presented. Relevant cost categories of the Ready Reserve Force (RRF) and prepositioned forces are determined by looking at the life-cycle of sealift ships. A methodology for determining an optimal fleet mix is presented. Two models for optimizing the direct costs of mobilizing ...

Makhoul Varona, Eduardo

The explosive growth of shipping traffic all over the World, with around three quarters of the total trade goods and crude oil transported by sea, has raised newly emerging concerns (economical, ecological, social and geopolitical). Geo-information (location and speed) of ocean-going vessels is crucial in the maritime framework, playing a key role in the related environmental monitoring, fisheries management and maritime/coastal security. In this scenario space-based synthetic aperture radar (S...

Weldon, Steven G

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. / The new architecture for the Joint Maritime Command Information System, referred to as JMCIS'98, seeks to provide uniform access to tactical and non-tactical information. The goal is to allow access to such information using Wide Area Network technology and Personal Computers running Windows NT in a web environment. This architecture relies on web servers to deliver executable content, such as Java applets, to clients and gateway servers ...

Cai, Sixing., 蔡思行.

abstract / History / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

Motohashi, Toshihiko.

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited / The author examines the MH-53E helicopter maintenance policy in view of the JMSDF's concern. The maintenance data from December 1989 through June 1993 was examined using descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis. In particular, the manpower reallocation, learning-effect and adequacy of spare- parts are discussed in this context. The study indicates successful maintenance practice in reducing the unscheduled maintenance hours ...

Proctor, Leonard Lewis

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited / This study examines the United States (U.S.) Maritime Industry as a potential defense force, its present defense capabilities and the government programs and legislation designed to support it. The current government subsidy program is determined to be inadequately structured to meet the nation's need for a merchant marine of modern, efficient and competitive vessels Defense mobility has also declined as a result of ineffective programs....

Jones, Brian Patrick, active 21st century

This dissertation is about the long-distance navigators who constructed a global marine world as agents of the sixteenth-century Spanish maritime empire. The hard-won pragmatic and empirical expertise on which they relied developed in an uneasy tension with the priorities of the bureaucracy centered at the Casa de la Contratación in Seville. In the Atlantic, bureaucratic standardization driven by the Casa made commercial ocean travel increasingly routine, while exploratory sailors, particularly ...

Muirhead, Peter Maxwell Pilley

Global maritime education and training (MET) is currently subject to great change brought about by new international legislation, a dynamic shipping environment, the growing impact of technology, and the challenges maritime institutions face to survive in an uncertain market place.The aim of the research is to determine to what extent global MET institutions can enhance and enrich traditional practices through access to new technology and the use of innovative teaching and assessment methods' wi...

Oyende, Kayode Babatunde.

This dissertation titled ‘An appraisal of the law relating to oil pollution in the inland, territorial and maritime waters of Nigeria’ examines whether the law governing oil pollution in Nigeria is satisfactory in so far as determining issues of liability and compensation for oil pollution are concerned. The thesis examines a research hypothesis on the determination of the question whether the law adequately caters for victims of oil pollution occurring in the inland, territorial and maritime wa...

St-Louis, Carole

Of the maritime boundaries yet to be delimited between Canada and the United States, the Beaufort Sea might be the more pressing one, considering its strategic location in a rapidly developing Arctic region and its vast economic potential. In accordance with the Law of the Sea Convention (UNCLOS), maritime boundaries are to be delimited by agreement on the basis of international law as referred to in Article 38 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice, in order to reach an equitable ...

Rohrer, Samuel Richard

In my dissertation I seek to answer the questions regarding why some coastal populations turn to maritime crime in domestic and international waters, and others do not. In this work I advocate that generalizable geographic, political, and economic conditions can explain a significant portion of maritime crime. Broadly speaking these conditions are classified into geographic opportunity and a political and economic willingness to act. Through a qualitative analysis of historical outbreaks of mari...

Martins, Cristiane C. A.

La gestion du milieu marin pour de multiples usages est une problématique de plus en plus en complexe. La création d’aires marines protégées (AMP) a été désignée comme étant une stratégie efficace afin de concilier la conservation avec les autres usages. Cependant, pour atteindre les objectifs de conservation, un plan de gestion bien défini de même qu’un programme de suivi efficace doivent être instaurés. En 1998, le parc marin du Saguenay–Saint-Laurent (PMSSL) a été créé afin de protéger plusie...

Burkov, Yuriy, Wärff, Fredrik

Ever since the fall of the Somali government in 1991, the country has been in the state of civil war and in some regions total lawlessness. The creation of different, smaller, autonomous regions has led to fragmentation of the country as a whole and some districts seem to in fact claim sovereignty over their respective territories. While the country has been practically left to fend for itself, politicians, warlords and local clans were fast to proclaim parts of the country as independent region...

DREW, PHILLIP JEFFREY

The law of Blockade is derived from customary law that developed during the height of eighteenth and nineteenth century naval warfare. As a method of warfare that has the goal of crippling an adversary’s economy, blockade can devastate not only the military apparatus of a country, but the civilian population as well. In this manner, it is a method of warfare that cannot distinguish in its effects between civilians and military objectives. The existing IHL framework governing blockade does not...

Charlebois, Jamie

The past 20 years have witnessed a resurgence of maritime piracy, especially along the East and West coasts of Africa. Much scholarly research has been undertaken on this issue; however a consensus on the primary economic causes of piracy does not exist. This thesis seeks to identify the primary economic causes and consequences of maritime piracy in Somalia and Nigeria specifically, and coastal sub-Saharan Africa more generally. It investigates whether variables such as a lack of employment oppo...

Roellinghoff, Michael Randall

Territorial disputes between Japan and South Korea (Dokdo/Takeshima) and Japan, Taiwan, and China (the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands) are characteristic of post-war East Asian diplomacy. This thesis explores these ongoing territorial disputes, problematizing Realist arguments by which these disputes are analyzed as matters of territorial or resource nationalism, or as the result of legal complications or security concerns. Instead, it is argued that we should look to ideologies of nationalism to unders...

K.Stenross@murdoch.edu.au, Kurt Stenross

The seafaring people of Madura, situated off the northeastern coast of Java, are one of the leading maritime groups in the Indonesian archipelago. They have played a major role in indigenous shipping, and since the second half of the nineteenth century their importance in this field has been second only to that of the Bugis and Makassarese. With their strong maritime orientation and outward economy, the coastal Madurese contrast strongly with the agricultural orientation of their near neighbours...

Glenn, Ian Neil

This thesis develops an algorithm to fuse redundant observations due to multiple sensor coverage of a vessel. Fuzzy membership functions are used as a measure of correlation, and a fuzzy associative system determines which observations represent the same vessel. The result is a computationally efficient algorithm. The output of the system is a unique set of vessels identified by unique platform identifiers. Results of tests based on computer simulation of overlapping radar coverage show that the...

McCalla, Denise J.

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Winger, Mary T.

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Eze, Nicholas Chinedu

In an era when maritime delimitation disputes abound because of the perceived and actual presence of valuable natural resources in the disputed boundaries, this thesis seeks to examine a particular alternative way of resolving maritime disputes called joint development. A good number of states are, expectedly, unable to resolve their maritime disputes say by a successful bilateral mutual agreement where natural resources capable of changing their economic fate are found to straddle such disputed...

Lee, Randall Robert

This thesis analyzes mid-sixteenth century English maritime predation as a smoothly run predatory business system, not numerous depredations by individualist renegades motivated by tradition or gambling instincts. Sea-roving offered investment opportunities to shoreside individuals with large or small amounts of ready capital who might become silent partners if the returns they expected were high enough to warrant the risks involved compared to alternative investments. Profitability has be...

Lacoursière-Roussel, Anaïs

Introductions of exotic fouling species have severely disrupted marine ecosystems. Theory suggests that high propagule pressure increases the probability of successful establishment. Likewise, empirical studies have shown the importance of ships and boats for transporting exotic species. However, few empirical studies have demonstrated the effect of propagule pressure on invasion success. For marine fouling species, uncertainty about vectors and pathways further impedes our ability to calculate ...

Pillay, Rohini.

Modern maritime piracy is cause for major concern around the world. Although there have been preventative measures deployed by maritime nations to counter the crime, there is a need to develop an efficient regime to prosecute pirates. The general modus operandi that is employed by arresting-vessels is a 'catch-and-release' procedure, which means that there are no further steps taken to bring these pirates to account for their crimes. The purpose of this dissertation is to analyse the main challe...

Dedekind, Amy Paula.

From a survey of media reports and other documentary sources, illicit drug trafficking and trade seems to be a prevalent problem in South Africa today. Drugs are being shipped undetected in containers, which poses a significant threat to maritime security. The drug trade is also having a negative impact upon one of South Africa's valuable resources, abalone. It appears that there is a substantial nexus between the poaching of abalone and the illicit drug trade in South Africa. Abalone is conside...

Stewart, David James

Nautical archaeology has made remarkable advances since its inception half a century ago, but one area in need of more attention is the examination of cultural aspects of seafaring. This dissertation advances understanding of eighteenth- through early-twentieth century British and American maritime culture by exploring traditional memorialization practices. Interpretations are based primarily on analysis of 412 maritime memorials recorded during two archaeological surveys in Great Britain and t...

Kuznetsova, Daria

L'oscillation de Madden-Julian (MJO) est la composante dominante de la variabilité intrasaisonnière dans l'atmosphère tropicale, se propageant vers l'est dans la bande équatoriale. Elle se compose d'un centre convectif (phase active) accompagné de la convergence des anomalies du vent zonal de bas niveau et de la divergence de niveau supérieur, et de zones de convection faible (phases supprimées). Trois périodes de l'activité MJO sur l'océan Indien et le continent maritime ont été choisies : 6-14...

Tseng, Chin-Cheng, 曾錦錚

碩士 / 國立臺灣海洋大學 / 應用英語研究所 / 107 / Due to the geographic location, maritime industry is highly developed in Taiwan. Therefore the learning of the official communicative language of the marine industry, English, becomes very crucial for the future maritime workers. The purpose of this research is to understand the maritime English learning difficulties and responses of the maritime students. Artifacts of the teaching materials, exams sheets, students’ entrance grades were collected and carefully ana...

Pelegrin Alvarez, Lorena

Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program, 2018. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-134). / The systems that we are attempting to build today are becoming increasingly complex, as we ask for more function, more performance, more robustness, more flexibility, and more interconnectedness. At the same time, design and implementation of these systems is becoming a highl...

Johansen, Johan

Thesis (MA )--Stellenbosch University, 2011. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Understanding a risk is the first step in managing and mitigating it. Maritime insecurity has been an integrated risk for investors in the Gulf of Guinea for many years. But what do investors know about the nature of maritime insecurity in the Gulf of Guinea, besides a general risk rating? This thesis conceptualises and maps the maritime political risks in the Gulf of Guinea in order to give investors a better understanding of...

MANH DUC HOANG, 黃孟德

碩士 / 樹德科技大學 / 經營管理研究所 / 102 / Abstract This research aims at gaining a deep understanding about the factors affecting the quality of credit risk management at the Maritime bank, Hai Duong branch. The qualitative approach was used, including techniques like: situation analysis (situation of the Hai Duong branch) and interviewing experts and related parties in the branch’s credit activities. The contents of credit risk management at Maritime bank, Hai Duong branch cover the three main elements tha...

Lepoittevin, Camille

Au cours des quarante dernières années, l’optimisation des méthodes sylvicoles et l’introduction de variétés améliorées ont permis d’accroître considérablement la productivité du pin maritime. Pour permettre à la filière bois de disposer d’une matière première de qualité sur ce matériel amélioré, un programme de recherches multidisciplinaire a été développé afin d’étudier le déterminisme génétique de la qualité du bois. Neuf facteurs de transcription potentiellement impliqués dans la xylogenèse ...

Morel, Alexandre

Chez le pin maritime l’embryogenèse somatique, méthode de multiplication végétative performante, n’est pas optimisée la limite étant le contrôle du développement des embryons somatiques (ES). Nos objectifs ont été 1) d’étudier les mécanismes physiologiques, cellulaires et moléculaires précoces contrôlant la différenciation des ES en réponse à une disponibilité en eau réduite 2) d’évaluer pour l'ES cotylédonaire de 12 semaines son état de maturité, son protéome afin de les comparer à l'embryon zy...

Kessab, Achraf

Afin de garantir un MANET totalement connecté, nous proposons un outil analytique permettant d´estimer les rayons de couverture requis. Ensuite, nous étudions les communications multi-sauts et nous proposons plusieurs protocoles de routage pour améliorer les délais de communications. Puis, nous nous focalisons sur la contribution du réseau satellite en menant une étude comparative qualifiant les besoins en stations hybrides "HS" ainsi qu’une stratégie d´accès à ces passerelles satellite. Dans un...