We study supply chain risk mitigations by incorporating expedited shipping. The firm we consider can source from two suppliers—one is unreliable while the other is perfectly reliable but more expensive. It intends to mitigate the potential risks caused by random disruptions at the unreliable supplier by adapting its risk mitigation policy based on the supplier’s disruption factors, such as the ...

BACKGROUND Over 2300 merchant seafarers are currently employed on board UK Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) ships. However, little is known about work related mortality among these seafarers, and whether it is lower than among seafarers in merchant fleets. OBJECTIVES To establish the causes and circumstances of all work related deaths among seafarers who were employed in RFA ships from 1976 to 200...

To attract and keep customers, companies, especially those in e-business, are increasingly offering free shipping to buyers whose order sizes exceed the free shipping quantity. In this paper, given the supplier offers free shipping and the retailer faces stochastic demand, we determine the retailer’s (i.e., the newsvendor’s) optimal order quantity and the optimal selling price simultaneously. W...

 Benthic invertebrates are a well-established target in environmental quality status evaluations. The AMBI (AZTI's Marine Biotic Index) was developed to determine the impacts and the quality status of soft-bottom marine benthic communities. The aim of this study was investigating multivariate pattern of benthic invertebrate community and application of AMBI (AZTI's Marine Biotic Index) for...

Philosophy and justice have always had a rocky relationship. Socrates, remember, was put to death for teaching young people to question received wisdom on matters of public importance. 2 Yet his pupil Plato dared to maintain that philosophers possessed ways of thinking that could help answer our most puzzling questions about the nature of both truth and justice. This is our paradox: Sometimes o...

Greener shipping? A consideration of the issues associated with the introduction of emission control areas Helen Sampson, Michael Bloor, Susan Baker & Katrin Dahlgren a Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Seafarers International Research Centre, Cardiff University, 52 Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT UK b Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University, King Edward VII Ave...

Current land administration systems are the product of 19th century economic and land market paradigms and have failed to properly support sustainable development. The need for urgent reform is accepted, but the way forward unclear in many jurisdictions. This paper will discuss current international initiatives and research to develop a new land administration vision to promote sustainable deve...

The aim of the study was to analyze scientific views on definition liner shipping at various stages its development. For this, literary sources for more than a hundred years research this issue were analyzed. analysis emphasizes lack systemic studies and approach concept in question. As result study, development are presented main characteristic features given, boundaries established. resulting...