Dynasties of the Sea I: The Shipowners and Financiers Who Expanded the Era of Free Trade
ISBN: 9780983716334 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dynasties of the Sea is the first book to examine one of the most powerful forces in global trade and economic development: world shipping and the magnates who drive the industry. Operating from Monaco to Hong Kong, London to Athens, Singapore to Oslo, shipowners and their financiers have changed the world in every way. From transporting agricultural products from Brazil to Africa and the Middle East, to delivering Australian iron ore to China, to carrying Middle East crude oil to Asia and the Americas, to carrying almost every article of clothing you are wearing and every electronic device...
Dynasties of the Sea is the first book to examine one of the most powerful forces in global trade and economic development: world shipping and the mag...
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64,48 zł |
Polskie porty morskie
ISBN: 9788377290408 / Polski / Twarda / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Czy wiedzą Państwo, że w Polsce istnieją prawnie ustanowione 32 porty morskie? A u ujścia Wisły już 1000 lat p.n.e. istniała osada rybacka? Skąd pochodzi nazwa portu Tolkmicko na Zalewie Wiślanym? Od kiedy Elbląg rywalizował z Gdańskiem o handel towarami transportowanymi Wisłą? Jakie przedsiębiorstwa eksploatacyjne działają na terenie największych portów oraz który dzień w roku jest najważniejszy dla każdego Kaszuba związanego z morzem?
Na te i inne pytania odpowiada książka Dariusza Konkola i Tomasza Perki Polskie porty morskie. Odnajdą w niej Państwo podstawowe... Czy wiedzą Państwo, że w Polsce istnieją prawnie ustanowione 32 porty morskie? A u ujścia Wisły już 1000 lat p.n.e. istniała osada rybacka? Sk...
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Turning the Right Corner: Ensuring Development Through a Low-Carbon Transport Sector
ISBN: 9780821398357 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A diferencia de lo que ha ocurrido en otros sectores, el reconocimiento de las consecuencias del cambio climatico en el transporte ha sido lento. Las politicas dirigidas a orientar la demanda hacia modalidades y tecnologias con bajas emisiones deben formar parte de los programas y proyectos de inversion. Dichas politicas pueden reducir la demanda de transporte en el largo plazo al modificar la geografia economica de las ciudades y los paises. Pero para que esto ocurra, se requiere una estrecha coordinacion de las politicas de transporte, medio ambiente y salud. En este informe se pone de...
A diferencia de lo que ha ocurrido en otros sectores, el reconocimiento de las consecuencias del cambio climatico en el transporte ha sido lento. Las ...
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Structural Change in Transportation and Communications in the Knowledge Society
ISBN: 9781843766100 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The transformation of the world economy from a system of nations trading materials-intensive goods to a system of seamless global networks for information-intensive goods and services has created the need for a comprehensive restructuring of transportation and communications activities. The contributors - transportation and communications analysts from Japan and the United States - address this restructuring from a variety of perspectives ranging from theoretical treatments of the role of information in the economy to applications of communications technologies for the collection of travel...
The transformation of the world economy from a system of nations trading materials-intensive goods to a system of seamless global networks for informa...
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740,83 zł |
How American Can Stop Importing Foreign Oil & Those Preventing It From Happening
ISBN: 9781882567539 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this book is to enlighten the public of the tremendous potential of natural gas. America currently has an oversupply of cheap natural gas. And it has huge reserves, enough to take care of this country's energy needs for the rest of this century and more. Only a few other countries have more reserves than are found in the United states. There is a massive drilling campaign underway within the continental U.S. resulting from discovery of new shale oil fields or plays and the development of horizontal drilling techniques and fracturing. This has resulted in the production of more...
The purpose of this book is to enlighten the public of the tremendous potential of natural gas. America currently has an oversupply of cheap natural g...
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84,85 zł |
Maritime Infrastructure: Transportation Opportunities & Considerations
ISBN: 9781624177040 / Angielski / Twarda / 165 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Top 25 Airlines KPIs of 2011-2012
ISBN: 9781482549225 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The "Top 25 Airlines KPIs of 2011-2012" report provides insights into the state of airlines performance measurement today by listing and analyzing the most visited KPIs for this industry on smartKPIs.com in 2011. In addition to KPI names, it contains a detailed description of each KPI, in the standard smartKPIs.com KPI documentation format, that includes fields such as: definition, purpose, calculation, limitation, overall notes and additional resources. This product is part of the "Top KPIs of 2011-2012" series of reports and a result of the research program conducted by the analysts of...
The "Top 25 Airlines KPIs of 2011-2012" report provides insights into the state of airlines performance measurement today by listing and analyzing the...
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Top 25 Airports KPIs of 2011-2012
ISBN: 9781484155455 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The "Top 25 Airports KPIs of 2011-2012" report provides insights into the state of airports performance measurement today by listing and analyzing the most visited KPIs for this functional area on smartKPIs.com in 2011. In addition to KPI names, it contains a detailed description of each KPI, in the standard smartKPIs.com KPI documentation format, that includes fields such as: definition, purpose, calculation, limitation, overall notes and additional resources. While dominated by KPIs reflecting cost performance and material handling, other popular KPIs come from categories such as...
The "Top 25 Airports KPIs of 2011-2012" report provides insights into the state of airports performance measurement today by listing and analyzing the...
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207,98 zł |
Top 25 Land Transport KPIs of 2011-2012
ISBN: 9781484155844 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The "Top 25 Land Transport KPIs of 2011-2012" report provides insights into the state of land transport performance measurement today by listing and analyzing the most visited KPIs for this functional area on smartKPIs.com in 2011. In addition to KPI names, it contains a detailed description of each KPI, in the standard smartKPIs.com KPI documentation format, that includes fields such as: definition, purpose, calculation, limitation, overall notes and additional resources. While dominated by KPIs reflecting cost performance and material handling, other popular KPIs come from categories such...
The "Top 25 Land Transport KPIs of 2011-2012" report provides insights into the state of land transport performance measurement today by listing and a...
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Modernization of U.S. Ports & Inland Waterways: Post-Panamax Preparations
ISBN: 9781624177576 / Angielski / Twarda / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Eurasian Connection: Supply-Chain Efficiency Along the Modern Silk Route Through Central Asia
ISBN: 9780821399125 / Angielski / Miękka / 111 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Modern Silk Route is offering a potential land-bridge between China and Europe through Central Asia and Russia that offers a complement to existing shipping routes, and is attracting growing interest by a selected number of multinational companies. However, the main role of the Silk Route is to support the development and integration of the region. Connectivity to the east and west, over exceptionally long distances, is critical to the development of the Central Asian countries, when trading globally and between themselves. Facilitating trade and transportation across many borders,...
The Modern Silk Route is offering a potential land-bridge between China and Europe through Central Asia and Russia that offers a complement to existin...
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175,80 zł |
X-Scm: The New Science of X-Treme Supply Chain Management
ISBN: 9780415873567 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Supply chain management today has never been more complex, more dynamic or more unpredictable. The good news is that new techniques for analyzing country-level investments, network configuration and in-sourcing/out-sourcing decisions can enable more precise and effective span of control. The latest generation of network design and optimization applications has created broader opportunities to view and streamline links between supply chain network nodes. New concepts in multi-channel demand signal capture -- and in pooling and data warehousing customer signals coming into the enterprise from...
Supply chain management today has never been more complex, more dynamic or more unpredictable. The good news is that new techniques for analyzing coun...
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369,82 zł |
Cockpit Engineering
ISBN: 9780754617518 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cockpit Engineering provides an understandable introduction to cockpit systems and a reference to current concepts and research. The emphasis throughout is on the cockpit as a totality, and the book is accordingly comprehensive. The first chapter is an overview of how the modern cockpit has evolved to protect the crew and enable them to do their job. The importance of psychological and physiological factors is made clear in the following two chapters that summarise the expectable abilities of aircrew and the hazards of the airborne environment. The fourth chapter describes the stages employed...
Cockpit Engineering provides an understandable introduction to cockpit systems and a reference to current concepts and research. The emphasis througho...
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539,40 zł |
Transportation Indicators and Business Cycles
ISBN: 9780857241474 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Addressing the role that the transportation sector plays in business cycle propagation, this title presents an index of the different indicators for this sector to identify its state, and predict its future, using various statistical procedures.
Addressing the role that the transportation sector plays in business cycle propagation, this title presents an index of the different indicators for t...
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Soft Landing: Airline Industry Strategy, Service, and Safety
ISBN: 9781430236771 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Soft Landing: Airline Industry Strategy, Service, and Safetycovers the immediate past, present, and future of the airline industry and its effects on consumers and the economy. Aviation receives a disproportionate amount of news coverage in the popular press not to mention chatter at cocktail parties and workplaces around the world. And why not? Aviation represents a sector of the U.S economy, for example, exceeded in size only by the real estate, healthcare, and automotive industries. Furthermore, hundreds of millions of people fly each year, including 80 million Americans.... Soft Landing: Airline Industry Strategy, Service, and Safetycovers the immediate past, present, and future of the airline industry and its... |
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Future Challenges for the Port and Shipping Sector
ISBN: 9781843117711 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Future Challenges for the Port and Shipping Sector discusses the issues that most influence the future of the maritime and port industries. Important topics covered in this book include:
This book looks at... Future Challenges for the Port and Shipping Sector discusses the issues that most influence the future of the maritime and port industries. Importa... |
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Electric Vehicles: Technology, Policy and Commercial Development
ISBN: 9781849714150 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modern electric vehicles (EVs) are well suited to most people's general transport needs. Despite this, their adoption at a large scale has been grindingly slow. What are the reasons for this? Unlike most books which focus on the technical aspects of EV performance, this guide sets out the commercial and political barriers to their increased use and lays out the ways in which these barriers can be overcome. It begins by charting the rise of the internal combustion engine, and detailing the problems associated with it which are driving efforts to electrify transportation. It goes on to...
Modern electric vehicles (EVs) are well suited to most people's general transport needs. Despite this, their adoption at a large scale has been grindi...
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693,51 zł |
A Nostalgic Look at the Railways of Blackpool & The Fylde - Britain's Premier Resort
ISBN: 9781857941241 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using photographs, maps, ephemera and reminiscences, this book recounts the history of not only the area's main lines but also the miniature railways and the Knott End branch.
Using photographs, maps, ephemera and reminiscences, this book recounts the history of not only the area's main lines but also the miniature railways ...
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Modelling and Forecasting in Dry Bulk Shipping
ISBN: 9780415719834 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book models price behaviour and forecasts prices in the dry bulk shipping market, a major component of the world shipping industry. Recent uncertainties in the world economy, shipbuilding developments and fleet changes mean the dry bulk shipping market has become extremely volatile, highly speculative and more sensitive to external shocks. In response to these challenging circumstances, this book models price behaviour and forecasts prices in various markets including the freight market, the new build ship market and the second-hand ship market. The authors have carried... This book models price behaviour and forecasts prices in the dry bulk shipping market, a major component of the world shipping industry.
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Efficient Logistics: A Key to Vietnam's Competitiveness
ISBN: 9781464801037 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vietnam has attained a strong record of economic growth and poverty reduction since the adoption of market-based economic reforms and pro-poor policies starting in the mid-1980s. Much of this achievement was driven by an untapped, rapidly-growing labor force and the enablement of greater labor participation in higher-productivity sectors of the economy. Yet, as Vietnam has restructured its economic activity towards manufacturing, more mechanized primary sector production and, increasingly, services, and as the labor force is projected to expand at a markedly lower rate than before, finding...
Vietnam has attained a strong record of economic growth and poverty reduction since the adoption of market-based economic reforms and pro-poor policie...
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153,16 zł |