An increase in the number of ships world merchant fleet, their tonnage and speed has significantly enhanced intensity navigation, accident rate. Despite fact that are equipped with latest integrated navigation power systems, improvement shore services quality crew training, rate port waters remains high. The main reason is “human factor”, which understudied. problems potential implementing mana...

Few recent stories about teen pregnancy have been so compelling as the item that surfaced in June 2008 in Time magazine, and was then zoomed around the world’s media post haste. The location is Gloucester, Massachusetts – America’s oldest seaport. The venue is Gloucester High School. The protagonists are a 17-strong group of girls, aged 14–16 years, who over the past calendar year have become p...

Large costs arise at a seaport container terminal from the duration of the unloading of vessels and from the time a vessel is waiting to be unloaded. The optimal allocation of vessels to berth space (Berth Allocation Problem) becomes more and more important as its solution is also input to further terminal decision problems. We compare solutions for a realistic data Berth Allocation Problem fou...

this study was conducted to assess the concentration of some heavy metals and to examine their contamination hazard in atmospheric dust of urban, industrial and non-urban areas in bushehr province, southwestern iran. fifty dust samples from the leaves of the palm trees and fifty surface soil samples from bushehr and assaluyeh cities as urban and industrial areas, respectively, and also from the...

Bioinorganic chemistry has increasing impact in many areas of science and technology. APPLIED BIOINORGANIC CHEMISTRY (ISABC) will focus on these applied aspects of bioinorganic chemistry. Themes include metal-containing frugs, radiopharmaceuticals, toxicology and nutrition, biologically active chelates and macrocycles, biominerals and new materials, as well as environmental, marine and agricult...

The limited economic and spatial resources require a careful planning of investments, so that achieving the most accurate knowledge of the performances of any proposed solution is a problem of worth importance. A possible solution to this problem is provided by sensitivity analysis to evaluate their robustness to uncertainties. Then, in this paper, traffic simulations will be used to evaluate, ...

In the last four decades the container as an essential part of a unitload-concept has achieved undoubted importance in international sea freight transportation. With ever increasing containerization the number of seaport container terminals and competition among them have become quite remarkable. Operations are nowadays unthinkable without effective and efficient use of information technology a...