国外关于港口物流方面原版经典图书，绝对超值。
以下为图书目录：
1 The economic organization of the
shipping market 1
1.1 The economic role of the shipping industry 2
1.2 The international transport system 7
1.3 The demand for sea transport 10
1.4 The world merchant fleet 19
1.5 The supply of sea transport 24
1.6 The role of ports in the transport system 29
1.7 The shipping companies who run the business 32
1.8 Politics versus economics in shipping 32
1.9 Summary 34
2 The shipping market cycle 37
2.1 Shipping cycles and shipping risk 38
2.2 Characteristics of shipping market cycles 40
2.3 The frequency of shipping cycles 45
2.4 Freight market cycles, 1869–1914 48
2.5 Market cycles, 1919–38 54
2.6 Market cycles, 1945–95 56
2.7 The return on investment in shipping 68
2.8 The prediction of shipping cycles 72
2.9 Summary 74
3 The four shipping markets 77
3.1 The decisions facing shipowners 78
3.2 The four shipping markets 78
3.3 The freight market 81
3.4 The sale and purchase market 96
3.5 The newbuilding market 107
3.6 The demolition market 110
3.7 Summary 111
4 Supply, demand and freight rates 113
4.1 The shipping market model 114
4.2 The demand for sea transport 117
4.3 The supply of sea transport 128
4.4 The freight rate mechanism 139
4.5 Summary 147
5 Costs, revenue and financial
performance 151
5.1 Cashflow and the art of survival 152
5.2 The cost of running ships 159
5.3 The capital cost and financial performance 172
5.4 The revenue calculation 175
5.5 Computing the cashflow 180
5.6 Summary 191
6 Financing ships and shipping
companies 193
6.1 Ship finance and shipping economics 194
6.2 How ships have been financed in the past 195
6.3 The world financial system and types of finance 200
6.4 Financing ships with equity 205
6.5 Financing ships with debt 210
6.6 Finance for newbuildings 215
6.7 Leasing ships 217
6.8 Appraising risk on shipping investment 219
6.9 Ship finance and shipping market dynamics 220
6.10 Summary 223
7 The economic principles of
maritime trade 225
7.1 Why study seaborne trade? 226
7.2 The countries that trade by sea 226
7.3 An explanation of trade theory 231
7.4 Theories about the pattern of trade 235
7.5 Economic growth and sea trade 238
7.6 Trade forecasting and the commodity trade model 243
7.7 Summary 247
8 The global pattern of maritime
trade 253
8.1 Introduction 254
8.2 The Westline theory 254
8.3 Geographical distribution of seaborne trade 264
8.4 Maritime trade of the Atlantic and East Pacific 266
8.5 Maritime trade of the Pacific and Indian Oceans 277
8.6 Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union 284
8.7 Summary 284
9 Bulk cargo and the economics of
bulk shipping 291
9.1 The commercial origins of bulk shipping 292
9.2 The bulk trades 292
9.3 The ‘transport system’ concept 294
9.4 Handling bulk cargoes 298
9.5 Liquid bulk cargoes 303
9.6 The five major dry bulks 314
9.7 The minor bulk trades 328
9.8 Refrigerated cargo 331
9.9 The vehicle trade 333
9.10 Summary 334
10 The general cargo and the
economics of liner shipping 337
10.1 Introduction 338
10.2 The origins of the liner service 338
10.3 Economic principles of liner operation 343
10.4 Liner conferences and their regulation 348
10.5 The components of liner service costs 351
10.6 The liner service cashflow model 357
10.7 Liner prices 358
10.8 The demand for liner services 360
10.9 The liner shipping routes 366
10.10 The liner fleet 372
10.11 Container ports and terminals 375
10.12 Liner companies, consortia and alliances 376
10.13 Summary 378
11 The economics of ships and ship
designs 381
11.1 What type of ship? 382
11.2 Cargo type and ship design 385
11.3 Fitting the ship to the shipping operation 390
11.4 Ships for the liner trades 393
11.5 Ships for the dry bulk trades 401
11.6 Ships for the liquid bulk trades 406
11.7 Combined carriers 413
11.8 Ships designed for a single commodity 414
11.9 Marine service vessels 416
11.10 Economic criteria for evaluating ship design 417
11.11 Summary 419
12 The regulatory framework of
maritime economics 421
12.1 How maritime regulation affects maritime economics 422
12.2 The institutions that regulate shipping 423
12.3 Self-regulation and the classification societies 423
12.4 The law of the sea 428
12.5 The regulatory role of the flag state 431
12.6 How maritime laws are made 440
12.7 The International Maritime Organization and its
conventions 443
12.8 The International Labour Organization 448
12.9 UNCTAD conventions 451
12.10 The regulatory role of the coastal states 452
12.11 Summary 453
13 The economics of shipbuilding and
scrapping 455
13.1 Role of the merchant shipbuilding and scrapping industries 456
13.2 Regional structure of world shipbuilding 456
13.3 Shipbuilding market cycles 464
13.4 The economic principles 467
13.5 The shipbuilding production process 474
13.6 shipbuilding costs and competitiveness 480
13.7 The shipbreaking industry 484
13.8 Summary 487
14 Maritime forecasting and market
research 489
14.1 The approach to maritime forecasting 490
14.2 Preparing for the forecast 493
14.3 Forecasting methodologies 498
14.4 Freight rate forecasting 500
14.5 Market research methodology 506
14.6 Forecasting problems 509
14.7 Summary 512
Appendix 1 An introduction to ship
market modelling 515
Appendix 2 Tonnage measurement
and conversion factors 523
Notes 527
References and recommended reading 541
Index 549