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At the end of the 19th century, Dundee was Europe's premier Arctic whaling port. From humble beginnings in the 1750's this national industry had survived French and American wars, privateers, economic slumps, storms, heart-wrenching disasters and some amazing triumphs.From 1860 until the 1880's, Dundee built the most efficient Arctic vessels in the world. Despite being only a small city on the east coast of Scotland, as the 19th century closed, it was the most important Arctic whaling port in Europe.The Dundee Whaling Fleet gives an overview of Dundee's experience in Arctic whaling, including a valuable guide to every ship in the fleet with statistics, dates and a thumbnail history. It also gives sketches of the most prominent of the whaling masters, Dundee shipping companies and 350 of the tens of thousands of seamen who took the ships north.

Merchant mariners --- History.

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In common with previous issues, the 2012 Review contains critical analysis and a wealth of unique data, including long-term data series on seaborne trade, fleet capacity, shipping services and port handling activities. This year's Review notes that world seaborne trade grew by 4 per cent in 2011, whereas the tonnage of the world fleet grew at a greater rate, by almost 10 per cent, as shipowners took delivery of vessels that had been ordered before the economic crisis began. With supply outstripping demand, freight rates fell even further, to unprofitable levels for most shipping companies. For importers and exporters, however, the low freight rates helped to reduce transaction costs, which is important for helping to revive global trade. As freight traffic continues to grow, the question of how to ensure the long-term sustainability of such growth is playing an increasingly important part in the policy debate on globalisation, trade and development, environmental sustainability, energy security and climate change.Reflecting these new realities, this year's Review of Maritime Transport addresses a range of relevant issues in this context and includes a special chapter on sustainable freight transport. This chapter highlights the impacts of freight transport activity, for example on the environment, human health and the climate, and the consequent need to reduce the sector's energy consumption and emissions. If left unchecked, such unsustainable patterns are likely to intensify, increasing the potential for global energy and environmental crises, and risk undermining progress being made on sustainable development and growth. Promoting a shift towards sustainable freight transport will help improve the sector's energy efficiency, reduce its heavy reliance on oil, and limit environmental and climate change impacts. In this context, developing effective policies and measures, including for the purpose of climate change mitigation and adaptation, and ensuring appropriate financing, are major challenges, especially for developing countries

Shipping --- Merchant Marine --- International Trade --- Business & Economics --- Transportation --- Merchant marine --- International trade --- Business & economics

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In the years before the Civil War, many Americans saw the sea as a world apart, an often violent and insular culture governed by its own definitions of honor and ruled by its own authorities. The truth, however, is that legal cases that originated at sea had a tendency to come ashore and force the national government to address questions about personal honor, dignity, the rights of labor, and the meaning and privileges of citizenship, often for the first time. By examining how and why merchant seamen and their officers came into contact with the law, Matthew Taylor Raffety exposes the complex relationship between brutal crimes committed at sea and the development of a legal consciousness within both the judiciary and among seafarers in this period. The Republic Afloat tracks how seamen conceived of themselves as individuals and how they defined their place within the United States. Of interest to historians of labor, law, maritime culture, and national identity in the early republic, Raffety's work reveals much about the ways that merchant seamen sought to articulate the ideals of freedom and citizenship before the courts of the land-and how they helped to shape the laws of the young republic.

Maritime law --- Merchant mariners --- History --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- United States

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Commercial law --- Commercial law. --- Business law --- Business --- Commerce --- Law, Commercial --- Mercantile law --- Law and legislation --- Law --- Law merchant --- Maritime law

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Die Analysen des vorliegenden Bandes bieten zahlreiche Perspektiven auf das relativ neue Politikfeld „Maritime Sicherheit“ und schließen eine bestehende Forschungslücke in Deutschland. Im ersten Abschnitt analysieren die Beitragenden theoretische Analysemodelle zur maritimen Sicherheit und gehen wirtschaftlichen, rechtlichen und geostrategischen Dimension nach. Die zweite Sektion legt den Schwerpunkt auf transnationale Herausforderungen, die maritime Unsicherheit bedingen: Organisierte Kriminalität, Piraterie, Terrorismus, Wettlauf um Ressourcen, Umwelt- und Klimaveränderungen. Im dritten Teil des Buches werden schließlich ausgewählte Akteure, ihre Strategien, Kapazitäten und Probleme im Umgang mit maritimer (Un-) Sicherheit betrachtet. Neben den USA, Großbritannien, Frankreich, Russland und China stehen dabei auch die Bundesrepublik Deutschland und die NATO im Fokus. Mit Beiträgen von Sebastian Bruns, Christian Bueger, Alexandr Burilkov, Dustin Dehez, Petra Dolata, Lutz Feldt, Max Gössler, Stefan Hansen, Ulrike Kronfeld-Goharani, Stormy-Annika Mildner,  Peter Lehr, Kerstin Petretto, David Petrovic, Martin Robson, Tim René Salomon, Felix Seidler,  Albert A. Stahel, Geoff Till, Julian Voje. Die Zielgruppen Studierende und Dozierende der Politikwissenschaft. Die Herausgeber Sebastian Bruns promoviert an der Universität Kiel zur US-Marinestrategie und ist sicherheitspolitischer Analyst und Berater von Militär, Politik, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft, zuletzt am U.S.-Repräsentantenhaus in Washington, D.C. Kerstin Petretto ist Fellow am Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg. David Petrovic promoviert zur Piraterie vor den Küsten Somalias an der Universität zu Köln und ist leitender Redakteur beim Internationalen Magazin für Sicherheit.

Political science. --- International relations. --- Political Science. --- International Relations. --- Marine accidents --- Merchant marine --- Ships --- Prevention. --- Safety measures. --- Safety regulations.