First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This volume is a reprint of Ralph Davis’ seminal 1962 book, The Rise of the English Shipping Industry in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The aim was

A concise view of the petroleum shipping industry, its history, and how it is affected by the world petroleum markets. Volume 1 covers the history of energy imp

Each industry faces unique human resource management challenges and opportunities and in shipping these include a global labour market and global unionism, long

The classic Business of Shipping (now in its ninth edition) remains North America’s most comprehensive industry-focused book that explains and analyzes marine