THERE ARE NO alongside wharves for ocean-going vessels at Aden, so all cargo handling is done by tugs, lighters, launches and similar vessels. The conditions in which these craft work are quite severe and include shell encrustation, marine plant growth, and turbulent sea-water. Some craft operate both inshore and some miles out where they meet quite heavy seas. Maintenance work and costs are he…
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Ecological modernization (EM) is often presented as a suitable way to make societies, and the key industries on which they are dependent, environmentally and economically sustainable. This article focuses on the underlying factors that contribute to EM in the shipping industry. The theoretical perspective used stems from critical EM and corporate social responsibility research. The analysis a…
Modern Energy Management (MEM) won a contract to provide project management services for the 48MW first phase of the 144MW intertidal Tra Vinh wind farm in Vietnam (Renewables Now). Under the contract, MEM will appoint a dedicated project manager to supervise the development. The scheme, understood to be one of the country's first commercial-scale wind farms, is being developed by Woojin Co…
Scheduling systems can be developed to model all the significant processes in a business and desktop computers have the power to generate integrated schedules designed to realize optimized throughput. However, the step from design and development to installation and operation introduces the power of reality that will remorselessly reveal both strengths and weaknesses in the software or in the c…
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