The ILO MLC is a truly ground-breaking instrument. The shipping industry is unique in being the only industrial sector to have such a comprehensive global regime in place, setting out mandatory standards for the employment of the world’s two million merchant seafarers, which are now strictly enforced by governments worldwide through a sophisticated system of flag state inspections and port state control.

The ICS Diversity and Inclusion Toolkit for Shipping has been developed to create awareness and inspire change in the strategies, policies and practices that will enable the maritime industry to meet the needs of the diverse seafarer community.

Covers the conceptualization of green shipping practices, measurement scales for evaluating GSP implementation, green management practice and green shipping networks. Presents theory-driven discussion on the link between implementing GSP and firm performance. Provides a reference for firms to understand and evaluate their capability in carrying out green operations on their shipping activities.

This book explains what the key innovations are, how to ensure a return on investment, the barriers to innovation and how to overcome them.

Learn the core theory underpinning maritime logistics, shipping and ports including their role in global supply chains, trade and distribution from the authoritative textbook in the field.

Reflects the current pandemic case and emerging technological developments into the context of shipping and port management and operations.

Technology and the Blue Economy explores how innovators can develop the right business models to capitalize on growth opportunities, and analyses the critical success factors for emerging technologies.

Maritime Team Dynamics - 'Lessons from the Flight Deck'

Unpacks the complexity of this crucial maritime activity by spelling out its key elements and the connections and linkages between them.

Qualitative Accounts of Working in the Global Shipping Industry. It is an open-access book that you can download as a PDF or purchase a hard copy.

This complete guide to tramp shipping covers, among other topics, the law of agency, duties and liabilities of principal and agent, how to select a tramp ship agent, managing a tramp ship agency and the scope of services provided.

Logistics is the management of a flow of goods from the point of origin to the point of delivery in order to meet certain requirements. This book covers all aspects of shipping logistics from factory to customer and all stops in between.