LibGuides: Maritime Studies: Books

Books

The core Maritime Studies book collection is located at Level 5, Lee Wee Nam Library; some books are at Business Library. Books relating to Maritime Studies are classified with call numbers beginning with HD, HE, K, TA, TD, VM and VK. Please use the NTU Library Catalogue to confirm the location as well as the call number of the book

Here is a list of books on specific maritime studies subjects:

E-books

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Introductory Texts - Containers

The box : how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger by Marc Levinson
Call Number: TA1215.L665 2016
ISBN: 0691170819
Publication Date: 2016
The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about.
The box that changed the world : fifty years of container shipping - an illustrated history
Call Number: HE566.C6D687
ISBN: 9781891131950
Publication Date: 2006
The Container Principle by Alexander Klose; Charles Marcrum II
Call Number: TA1215.K66
ISBN: 0262028573
Publication Date: 2015
In The Container Principle, Alexander Klose investigates the principle of the container and its effect on the way we live and think. Klose explores a series of "container situations" in their historical, political, and cultural contexts. He examines the container as a time capsule, sometimes breaking loose and washing up onshore to display an inventory of artifacts of our culture. He explains the "Matryoshka principle," explores the history of land-water transport, and charts the three phases of container history. He examines the rise of logistics, the containerization of computing in the form of modularization and standardization, the architecture of container-like housing (citing both Le Corbusier and Malvina Reynolds's "Little Boxes"), and a range of artistic projects inspired by containers.

Dictionaries

Dictionary of Shipping Terms by Peter Brodie
Call Number: HE567.B864 2007
ISBN: 1843116987
Publication Date: 2007
Contains many new and expanded definitions and takes into account recent changes in: * The liner sector * Agreements between shipping lines and the way in which freight surcharges are calculated * Supply chain security measures - including ports * Bill of lading clauses * New standard forms of charter party
Reeds Dictionary of Shipping and Marine Finance by Honore Paelinck
Call Number: HE567.P126
ISBN: 1408124424
Publication Date: 2010
Intended for anyone involved in port operations, finance, insurance, surveying, maritime economics, securities and banking, this is a comprehensive glossary of terms, acronyms and abbreviations used in the world of shipping and marine finance.

Introductory Texts - Shipping

Elements of Shipping by Alan Edward Branch
Call Number: HE571.B816 2007 (Reserves)
ISBN: 9780415362856
Publication Date: 2007
With new chapters on seaports and electronic data interchange, it explains in a lucid, professional manner the basic elements of shipping embracing operating, e-commerce/computerization (shipboard/trade), commercial, legal, economic, technical, managerial, logistics and financial considerations.
Farthing on International Shipping [ebook] by Proshanto K. Mukherjee; Mark Brownrigg
ISBN: 9783642345982
Publication Date: 2013
[This book] is a valuable source of information for students of traditional maritime law as well as for those who seek to understand maritime and shipping services on a global scale. The text includes information and analytical content on national and international practices in shipping.
Introduction to shipping by Cheong Kwee Thiam
Call Number: HE571.C518
ISBN: 9789812369949
Publication Date: 2012
Reeds Sea Transport : Operations and Economics by Patrick M. Alderton
Call Number: HE735.A362 2011
ISBN: 9781408131428
Publication Date: 2011
The sixth edition of Reeds Sea Transport ... includes new data and statistics, new advice on safety, a review of ship types including the growth in tonnage and the increase in container ship sizes, as well as the effect of the 'depression' over recent years, all of which make essential reading for professionals as well as students on courses concerned with Shipping Ports and Transport.
Shipping and Ports in the Twenty-first Century by David Pinder; Brian Slack
Call Number: HE571.S557
ISBN: 0203496418
Publication Date: 2004
Shipping and port systems are vital to societies and lifestyles around the world. In the late twentieth century, however, assumptions concerning the robustness of these systems were severely shaken by economic shocks triggered by oil crises. This volume explores how many of the consequent uncertainties have been resolved, and how adapted systems have been shaped to meet the challenges of the new millennium.

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Introductory Texts - Containers

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Introductory Texts - Shipping