Essays on Seaborne

In A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower, there is a description of the challenges of a new era. For instance, the world has become exceedingly interconnected. This has led to the escalation of sea-borne trade around the world. Sea-paths and related shore infrastructure is a key to modern global economy. The increased global interconnection has augmented the prosperity of many countries. This sustained growth has brought about growing competition for resources as well as capital with other economic powers. Increased popular expectations and heightened competition for resources, combined with scarcity of the resources, has made countries to exert ...

No civilization in history can claim to have had a more powerful, resilient and disciplined army than the Romans; few have had a force so pointedly fashioned as a tool of statecraft and imperial expansion. The ingeniously imitative Romans borrowed the most effective elements of Greek/Macedonian warfare, adding their own innovations and relying upon the almost superhuman endurance of the Roman foot soldier to create the greatest empire in history. The peerless Roman soldier made a navy seem superfluous and, most of all, un-Roman. Nonetheless, in typically inventive Roman fashion, and in the interest of safeguarding commerce and protecting its citizens, Rome created a ...

Abstract

This company deals with the provision of management, operation, and crewing services for a diversified marine fleet, which consists tanker, container and dry cargo vessels for approximately seventy ships with a capacity of close to 8.0 million deadweight tons (dwt). The company was formed in the year 2010 due to a merger between TST and SHL companies, with an aim of expanding services to third party and to continue technical management of existing TST managed fleet.

List of Abbreviations

CFS – Container Freight Station EU – European Union TST – Tsakos Shipping and Trading SA SHL – Schoeller Holdings Ltd ITM – Institute of Transport Management ...