Economics of Maritime Transport, Theory and Practice/Экономика морских перевозок, теория и практика

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The Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers is charged under its Royal Charter with the dissemination of knowledge, the maintenance of standards, and the provision of a professional qualification. In the dynamic field of international trade and shipping business this is a challenging task.
The Institute has members and students in some 70 countries involved in all aspects of shipping, and its professional qualification is recognised worldwide.
The professional needs to have an understanding of the business environment in which he or she operates. It is also essential to have the ability to analyse the commercial implications of their and others actions as well as the capacity to cope with change.
It is in this context that The Institute made the decision to publish a series of shipping business text books. These combine both theory and practice, and intend to serve the practitioners within the mainstream of shipping business as well as students at college and university and those studying for professional examinations.
The authors contributing to the series are all experienced practitioners in their specific area of shipping business. Therefore in the increasingly pressured sphere of international seaborne trade this series of text books on the major disciplines within maritime commerce make a wide range of expertise accessible to those whose business is, or will be, shipping.

Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Preface
Contents
Part I Introduction
Chapter 1 Introduction
Wants and Resources
Opportunity or Alternative Costs
Production and Utility
Freight Markets
Summary
Further Reading
Chapter 2 Tools of Analysis: Essential Techniques
Introduction
Graphs and Charts
Production Possibility Curves
Service Production Possibilities
Analysis of the Distribution: Mean and Standard Deviation
Correlation
Summary
Further Reading
Part II Economic theory of shipping
Chapter 3 Demand
Introduction
Statistics and Trends
Demand and Economic Growth
Demand Theory
Utility
Indifference Curves Price Effects
Substitution and Income Effects
Summary
Further Reading
Chapter 4 Supply
Introduction
Supply Constituents
Shipbuilding
Investment
Scrapping
Laying-up
Speed
Sale and Purchase Markets
Supply Curves
Summary
Further Reading
Chapter 5 Market Price Determination
Introduction
Changes in Demand
Changes in Supply
Changes in Demand and Supply
Summary
Further Reading
Chapter 6 Elasticity
Elasticity of Demand
Freight Rate or Price Elasticity
Cross Elasticity
Income Elasticity
Elasticity of Supply
Factor Demand Elasticity
Summary
Further Reading
Chapter 7 Costs
Introduction
Cost Characteristics
Dimensions of the Vessel
Changes in Vessel Speed
Changes of Voyage Distance
Port Time
Cost Accounting Items
Economic Analysis of Cost
Marginal Costs
Break Even Analysis
Summary
Further Reading
Chapter 8 Market Structures
Introduction
Perfect Competition
Assumptions
Profit Maximisation
Short-Run Profitability
Long-Run Equilibrium
Monopoly
Equilibrium of Monololy
Price Discrimination
Imperfect Competition
Oligopoly
Summary
Further Reading
Chapter 9 International Trade and Transport Costs
Transport as Cost of Production
International Trade Theory - Absolute Advantage
Comparative Advantage
Factor Endowments: The Hecksher Ohlin Model
Transport Cost Theory
Transport Costs: the Supplier
Perspective - One Country Model
Two Country Model
The Effect of Elasticity
Exchange Rates
Floating Exchange Rates
Fixed Exchange Rates – Background
Operation
Exchange Rates and Shipping
Balance of Payments
Shipping and the Balance of Payments
Summary
Further Reading
Part III Industry Sectors
Chapter 10 The Dry Bulk Market
Introduction
Development
Charters
Single or Consecutive Voyage Charters
Time Charter
Bareboat or Demise Charters
Contracts of Affreightment
The Spot Market
Perfectly Competitive Market
The Freight Market
Potential Supply
Comments in Conclusion
Summary
Further Reading
Chapter 11 Tanker Market
Introduction
Developments Since the Second World War
Expansion
Tanker Freights
The Economic Theory
Supply
Demand
Elasticity of Demand for Oil
Elasticity of Demand for Tankers
The Spot Market
Cobweb Theorem
Unstable Equilibrium
Concluding Comments
Summary
Further Reading
Chapter 12 Liner Shipping
Introduction
Development and Structure of Liners
Liners` Cost Structure
Cost Competition Between Conventional
Liners and Tramps
Liner Revenue
Conferences
The Question of Maximisation
Summary
Further Reading
Chapter 13 Ports
Introduction
Capacity
Managing Philosophies
Port Investment
Port Costs
Congestion
Summary
Further Reading
Bibliography
Glossary
Subject Index