Computerization of maritime ports, e-commerce platforms and logistics communities

In the past few years there has been a clear trend of attaching increasing importance to "inforstructures", or the capacity of ports to process the information that accompanies foreign trade flows, so that the processing becomes a facilitating factor for trade, rather than an obstacle.This led to development of the concept of a port community system, which is a computerized system that interconnects all the members of a logistics community, making the exchange of documentation as effective as possible, reducing the volume of data to be re-entered in different systems and ultimately improving the whole process of monitoring an operation until its completion. Computerization of communications between all the actors at the ports facilitates integration of the community, while it also assists interaction between ports, thus forming logistics corridors.

Maritime transport in the Caribbean

The purpose of the FAL Bulletin is to facilitate trade through efficient transport, and the current issue will focus particularly on the promotion of trade in the Caribbean. It will first highlight the relevance of maritime transport for the region's trade. Thereafter it will look at the costs and the various relations between maritime transport and trade, and also discuss some comparative advantages and disadvantages, such as location and the particular situation of being an island. Finally, the article points at some potential areas of improvement.

The maritime cycle and the post-crisis ups and downs

This edition of the FAL Bulletin analyses the maritime cycle and its impact on the overall business cycle. In particular, it considers the financial and economic crisis which shook the world from 2008 onwards, affecting both world trade and levels of economic activity, with serious consequences for maritime transport.

Towards a demand model for maritime passenger transportation in the Caribbean: a regional study of passenger ferry services

In this paper, the main factors that influence the demand for maritime passenger transportation in the Caribbean were studied. While maritime studies in the Caribbean have focused on infrastructural and operational systems for intensifying trade and movement of goods, there is little information on the movement of persons within the region and its potential to encourage further integration and sustainable development. Data to inform studies and policies in this area are particularly difficult to source. For this study, an unbalanced data set for the 2000-2014 period in 15 destinations with a focus on departing ferry passengers was compiled. Further a demand equation for maritime passenger transportation in the Caribbean using panel data methods was estimated. The results showed that this demand is related to the real fare of the service, international economic activity and the number of passengers arriving in the country by air.

Virgin Islands trade study : an economic analysis /

Oct. 1979.

Forecasting trade and the merchant fleet. Final report.

Maritime Administration, Washington, D.C.

An answer to Lord Sheffield's pamphlet, on the subject of the navigation system : proving, that the acts deviating therefrom, which His Lordship censures, were beneficial to our trade and navy, in the last war, and ought to be renewed in the present /

"Memorial of the merchants of London": p. [72-75].

Thoughts on the changes which have taken place in the navigation laws of England and their effects on the shipping interest; together, with observations on a trade of export, and the benefits to be derived by British ships from the termination of the East India Company's charter.

Mode of access: Internet.

Essential United States foreign trade routes.

Mode of access: Internet.

American arguments for British rights; being a republication of the celebrated letters of Phocion, on the subject of neutral trade. Printed at Charleston, S.C.

The Charleston issue [1806] has title: The numbers of Phocion, which were originally published in the Charleston courier, in 1806, on the subject of neutral rights.

The freedom of the seas : or, The right which belongs to the Dutch to take part in the East Indian trade /

Latin and English.

Quarterly trade returns.

The Inspectorate's Annual trade report for 1920-1922 was published with the returns for the Oct./Dec. quarter, 1920-1922.

Prohibiting the right to engage in the coastwise trade to vessels built in the United States and later sold foreign: hearings before the Committee on Merchant Marine, Radio, and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Seventy-third Congress, second session on H.R. 9223, May 10, 1934.

Schuyler Otis Bland, chairman.

Consular formulary : being a collection of forms and precedents for the use of Her Majesty's consular officers in the discharge of their duties under the Consular Act, the Merchantile Marine and Registration Acts, in the exercise of their notarial functions, and generally in matters connected with British shipping, trade and commerce /

Includes bibliographical references (page 249) and index.

Atlantic Ais in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Maritime Adaptation, Indigenous Wrecking, and Buccaneer Raids on Florida’s Central East Coast

The Ais were a Native American group who lived along the Atlantic shoreline of Florida south of Cape Canaveral. This coastal population’s position adjacent to a major shipping route afforded them numerous encounters with the Atlantic world that linked Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas. Through their exploitation of the goods and peoples from the European shipwrecks thrown ashore, coupled with their careful manipulation of other Atlantic contacts, the Ais polity established an influential domain in central east Florida during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The pre-contact peoples of Florida’s east coast, including the ancestors of the Ais, practiced a maritime adaptation concentrated on the exploitation of their bountiful riverine, estuarine, and marine environments. The Ais then modified their maritime skills to cope with the opportunities and challenges that accompanied European contact. Using their existing aquatic abilities, they ably salvaged goods and castaways from the Spanish, French, English, and Dutch vessels dashed on the rocks and reefs of Florida’s coast. The Ais’ strategic redistribution of these materials and peoples to other Florida Native Americans, the Spaniards of St. Augustine, and other passing Europeans gained them greater influence. This process, which I call indigenous wrecking, enabled the Ais to expand their domain on the peninsula. Coastal Florida Native Americans’ maritime abilities also attracted the attention of Europeans. In the late seventeenth century, English buccaneers and salvagers raided Florida’s east coast to capture indigenous divers, whom they sent to work the wreck of a sunken Spanish treasure ship located in the Bahamas. The English subsequently sold the surviving Native American captives to other Caribbean slave markets. Despite population losses to such raids, the Ais and other peoples of the east coast thrived on Atlantic exchange and used their existing maritime adaptation to resist colonial intrusions until the start of the eighteenth century. This dissertation thus offers a narrative about Native Americans and the Atlantic that is unlike most Southeastern Indian stories. The Ais used their maritime adaptation and the process of indigenous wrecking to engage and exploit the arriving Atlantic world. In the contact era, the Ais truly became Atlantic Ais.