Sökning: "Ports"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 115 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Ports.

1. 16. Service, Regulations, and Ports : An Actor-Network perspective on the social dimension of Service-Dominant Logic

   Författare :Mattias Wengelin; Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Service-Dominant Logic; Port security; Service Studies;

   Sammanfattning : Something has happened in the field of Service Studies. With the introduction of what has been called Service Dominant Logic a large proportion of the established theories related to service as a phenomenon has been challenged. From previously having been defined as something different from the tangible things we buy (goods); i.e. LÄS MER

3. 17. Baltic Sea Ports and Russian Foreign Trade - Studies in the Economic and Political Geography of Transition

   Författare :Alf Brodin; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :Hamnar; transition; Östersjön; transportgeografi; geopolitik; Ryssland; Estland; Lettland; Litauen; Baltikum; fd. Sovjetunionen; handelsstatistik; transithandel; Port; transition; Baltic Sea; transport geography; geopolitics; Russia; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; former Soviet Union; transit trade; trade statistics;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to describe how the changing geopolitical environment in the former Soviet Union (FSU) has created a new transport geography, and thereby resulted in new patterns of foreign trade routes, port competition and market economic adaptation in the Baltic Sea fringe. The geographical limitation is the western part of the FSU and the Baltic Sea. LÄS MER

4. 18. Supply and demand of water transport : studies in cost and revenue structures of ships, ports and transport buyers with respect to their effects on supply and demand of water transport of goods

   Författare :Thomas Thorburn; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY;

   Sammanfattning : In this work the term "water transport of goods" is defined as both the transport of goods by ship and the handling in port, and is assumed to begin the moment the goods to be transported arrive at the port of dispatch by road, rail, smaller vessels or other means of conveyance, and to continue until the goods, loaded on trucks, railway waggons, local boats or by other means of transports leave the port of destination. The object of this study is to analyze some factors (variables) that affect the price making the aim being to clarify the more important relationships in supply and demand of water transport of goods. LÄS MER

5. 19. Enhancing Container Terminal Performance : A Multi Agent Systems Approach

   Författare :Lawrence Henesey; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Container terminals; performance; Multi agents; Agent based technologies;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis seeks to understand and attempt to solve some of the problems that are facing many decision makers at container terminals. The growth of containerization, transporting goods in a container, has created many problems for ports, i.e. higher requirements on terminals and infrastructure. LÄS MER

7. 20. Essays on the Political Economics of China's Development

   Författare :Ruixue Jia; Torsten Persson; Gérard Roland; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; political incentvies; promotion; collusion; public bads; economic history; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : Complementary Roles of Connections and Performance in Political Selection in ChinaWho becomes a top politician in China? We focus on provincial leaders and examine how their chance of being promoted depends on performance and connections with top politicians. We find a positive correlation between promotion and growth that is robustly stronger for connected provincial leaders than for unconnected ones. LÄS MER