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Management techiques proposed in the recently published book "Running Costs" by J M Downard Fairplay Publications 1981 are discussed and include setting budgets preparing and monitoring accounts and costing (personnel technical supplies insurances administration). Cost control and opportunities for cost saving are considered.

This book spotlights the lessons that must be learned from stranding casualties which chiefly fall under the category of human error. Mistakes of judgement, the neglect of fundamentals, bad watchkeeping, poor passage planning and the failure to recognise risk are all illustrated in this book.

This publication has been prepared to aid those concerned with the inspection and survey of boats, craft and other marine structures constructed from glass reinforced plastics (GRP), and to recommend methods of repair. Part 1 covers single skin structures and Part 2 GRP sandwich structures,

The purpose of this book is to lay down the basis of the ‘voyage estimating’ art, and to explain various techniques that can be employed. The expert reader may prefer variations on the suggestions herein, whilst the lay reader may, hopefully, find a new science that he has never before fully appreciated; but it is the writer’s with that all readers will find the book of some interest and useful to have on the book-shelf for reference.

Divided into three parts, this publication explores different aspects of the LNG carriers, from their operations to their market. Contents include: Part I LNG Carriers – its properties and uses; a history of LNG carrier development; containment systems; Part II LNG Carrier operations – cargo handling procedures; principal ship characteristics and power plant selection; ship safety; Part III LNG Market – importers and exporters of natural gas; world trade in LNG; LNG carrier requirements; LNG project finance; alternatives to LNG; Conclusions.

These low-air draught and shallow vessels arrived on the scene in the early 1970s. They are based on the low and burdensome barges seen every day on river and canal systems, but unlike these they are genuine seagoing ships also. The book includes chapters on low air draught ships and Rhine navigation; the Albert Canal; the development of low air draught vessels; changes in tonnage; charterers, managers and shipowners; the modern Rhine sea fleet; and German, Dutch, British, Danish, Belgian, Yugoslav, Polish, Finnish, Norwegian and Japanese built modern Rhine sea ships.

This is a collection of well-tried calculator programmes designed to deal with everyday problems of commercial ship operation. While they have been written specifically for the Hewlett Packard HP-67 calculator, the programmes can easily be adapted to other models of equivalent capacity; and in the accompanying explanation of the principles and methods involved, even the reader with no experience of programming will find new ideas and techniques. The book is divided into sections relating to voyage estimating, speed and fuel consumption, and financial calculations. An appendix deals with iterative calculations.

The book brings information on measurement surveys, condition surveys, sampling and cargo surveys.

This volume, the third and last in the Sea Trading series, covers the trading of seaborne raw materials and finished goods, the world of liner conferences and tramp shipping. Also discussed in detail are charterparties and bills of lading.