Tag: book review

“How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World” is a broadly-based and exciting account of human interaction at multiple levels, for general readers, specialists and practitioners.

In this book, Dr. Binay Kumar Singh authors Capt. Pradeep Chawla’s life experiences and his transition from ship’s officer to shore based world leading company top director.

Edgar Schein defines Humble Inquiry as “the fine art of drawing someone out, of asking questions to which you do not know the answer, of building a relationship based on curiosity and interest in the other person.”

In this book, Victor Oyaro Gekara, RMIT University, School of Business IT and Logistics, Faculty Member, and Professor Helen Sampson, Cardiff University’s Seafarers International Research Centre (SIRC), analyze contemporary issues relating to the life and work of seafarers, as well as to the modern shipping industry.

In this book, Helen Doe, an Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies, University of Exeter, provides an examination of women entrepreneurs who invested in, and often managed, non-feminine businesses such as shipping and shipbuilding in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

According to the book, an estimated 25% of all new investments are in ESG funds, with a global total of $23 trillion and the U.S. accounting for almost $9 trillion.

On 7 May 2013 at 22:59 the cargo ship Jolly Nero, following a failure of its main engine, hit the Pilots' Tower of the port of Genoa at a speed of about 3 knots, causing it to collapse.

“Safety Insights” includes case studies from industry practitioners exactly as they experience them without relying on the understanding of researchers who try to map the overall situation using multiple interviews, observations and questionnaires.

NAVTOR’s CEO, Tor Andreas Svanes has been given the title of ‘Mr ECDIS’ in a new book that describes both his life story, as well as the crucial role he had in the development of maritime e-Navigation.

The Seafarer Workforce Report is a useful tool to assure that the backbone of world trade is sufficient in numbers and skills.