Under Mr. Tung, a paternalistic former shipping tycoon, decisions are made within a small circle of trusted aides -- most of whom were chosen for their fealty to China as well as to their boss.
Monitoring the market has crucial roles for executing the shipping investment decisions in maritime transportation industry.
Workshops and semi-structured interviews revealed that shippers felt they had little or no impact on sailing schedules and were more or less subject to container shipping lines' decisions.
Furthermore, the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) and Fuzzy Axiomatic Design (FAD) algorithms are integrated into the SoQ frame in order to involve quantitative outcomes into the shipping investment decisions.
This view, combined with the reasoning above, leads one to conclude that the shipowners are not receptive to any single outside signal to reduce their sailing speed; nor is the shippers' demand on transport time, punctuality, frequency or route a deciding factor for liner shipping companies decisions regarding fleet management.
Based on some properties proved in this study, a dynamic programming algorithm is then designed to obtain some important threshold values, which are used in the optimal control policy for ship refueling decision.
"Before the spill, everyone was the captain of his own ship and their decisions were their own.
As a result, while the case will be of interest to the shipping industry, the decision will shed little light on the constitutional framework that the Supreme Court intends to apply to the question of punitive damages.
When Martha Graham was in her final years, she allowed those who ran her ship to make decisions that, had they truly come from her, would have been increasingly uncharacteristic.
Energy sources affect our decisions about shipping materials and goods around the globe.
