This handbook provides a wide-ranging, coherent, and systematic analysis of maritime management, policy, and strategy development. It undertakes a comprehensive examination of the fields of management and policy-making in shipping by bringing together chapters on key topics of seminal scientific and practical importance.

This book covers every aspect of the dry docking of sea going vessels. It provides a guide to industry for the different dock types and docking procedures inclusive of material management, steelwork operations and dry dock legislation. Many thousands of people worldwide are engaged within the perimeter of the docking and shipboard maintenance industries to ensure that our ships remain in Class and are kept seaworthy.

This unique illustrated guide explains the fundamental importance of weather tight hatch covers to the safe and profitable operation of cargo ships. Poorly maintained or secured hatch covers can result in total losses in heavy seas and are one of the principal sources of cargo damage claims.

This new publication is a comprehensive guide to best practice when placing a ship into lay-up and is an essential aid for ship owners/managers considering ship lay-up.

An important new addition to the prestigious Reeds series which focuses on contemporary ship management both theory and practice.

This book provides important safety advice that should be followed while serving on board liquefied gas carriers. It describes the hazards that are associated with liquefied gas products and addresses the essential items that are required to protect you, the environment, your colleagues and the cargo that is being carried.

Now on sale for £123.38 - new 13th edition Published: July 2019.

This book is aimed at people involved in the repair, maintenance and classification of ocean-going merchant ships. It takes a rigorous and structured approach to the subject, using discussion of changing regulation to describe and analyse a set of underpinning principles and techniques.

Re-print October 2023. This book is an authoritative and superbly illustrated guide to hatch cover surveys and inspections.