Second Edition. By Wayne K. Talley

Merchant Ship Types provides a broad and detailed introduction to the classifications and main categories of merchant vessels for students and cadets. It introduces the concept of ship classification by usage, cargo type, and size, and shows how the various size categories affect which ports and channels the types of vessels are permitted to enter.

A student-friendly introduction to core engineering topics.

Safety Management and Risk Analysis

Provides a single, comprehensive source of necessary information for understanding and preventing or reducing threats to the maritime community.

Bridging an identified gap between research and practice in the domain of risk and organizational learning with respect to human/organizational factors and organizational behaviour, this book highlights the common and recurring threads in contributory factors to accident causation.

Key Cases and Incidents

By Eon-Seong Lee, Dong-Wook Song

Now in its fifth edition, this authoritative guide covers all of the core aspects of maritime law in one distinct volume.

This exhaustive introduction to this complex area of the law covers the principal topics and illustrates the operation of shipping law in practice. This edition has been extensively revised and updated to incorporate significant statutory developments and cases. x

Originally published in 1998, the third edition of Maritime Economics provides a valuable introduction to the organisation and workings of the global shipping industry. The author outlines the economic theory as well as many of the operational practicalities involved.

It uses historical and theoretical analysis as the framework for a practical explanation of how shipping works today