Shipping in Sweden, 1850–1913

Occurrence of Fumigants and Hazardous Off-gassing Chemicals in Shipping Containers Arriving in Sweden

Containerized cargo shipment makes up the backbone of international trade. The principal aim of this cross-sectional study was to establish a qualitative and quantitative description of gaseous fumigants and volatile off-gassing substances facing workers tasked with entering shipping containers. A total of 372 packed and 119 empty shipping containers were sampled in six ports and two distributi...

Management of Seafarers in Liner Shipping Industry

 The use of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices in the form of ‘bundles’ and in integration with the business strategy of the organisation have been emphasised throughout the HRM literature. These are called the horizontal integration and vertical integration respectively. This article aim at examining the use of these practices in liner shipping industry in which human element plays a vi...

Optimization in container liner shipping

We will gives an overview of several decision problem encountered in liner shipping. We will cover problems on the strategic, tactical and operational planning levels as well as problems that can be considered at two planning levels simultaneously. Furthermore, we will shortly discuss some related problems in terminals, geographical bottlenecks for container ships and provide an overview of ope...

UPS Shipping and Handling

It is now clear that the two broad sets of reactions in the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS), the conjugative and degradative steps, are intricately coupled in vivo and that there are numerous factors that aid in the handling and delivery of ubiquitylated proteins to the proteasome. The report from Richly et al (2005)[this issue of Cell]) suggests how several of the known players in this proce...

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