While much attention has been given to reputation mechanisms to deter fraudulent behaviour in online auctions, we know little about the nature of disputes or the types of problems that users face. This is an exploratory analysis of 129 disputes for five different types of products that were sold on eBay. In the analysis we find seven different types of disputes including poor quality, slow ship...

Emerging traffic safety applications requiring low delay communications will need vehicle ad-hoc networks. The only communication standard currently supporting this is IEEE 802.11p. However, 802.11p uses the medium access method CSMA/CA, which has a major drawback: unbounded worst case channel access delay. We therefore propose an algorithm already in commercial use in the shipping industry: ST...

TZI ikom, University Bremen, Germany IMSAS, University Bremen, Germany Abstract Quality of food is mainly governed by the condition it is transported in. Wireless Sensor Networks have the potential to better control those transport conditions. When moving the Wireless Sensor Networks from a lab environment to the transport processes in harbors and shipping facilities, several challenges have to...

This review paper examines the possible pathways and technologies available that will help shipping sector achieve International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) deep decarbonization targets by 2050. There has been increased interest from important stakeholders regarding decarbonization, evidenced market surveys conducted Shell Deloitte. However, require financial incentives policies at an interna...

Concerning the implementation of marketing philosophies and policies in shipping companies no extensive research has been made up to now. This article presents the application of marketing philosophies and policies to the companies, which are activated in merchant (tramp and liner) and passenger shipping. The emphasis is given to the merchant shipping companies due to the fact that the passenge...