Six years after President Xi Jinping outlined the idea of the Silk Road economic belt during his visit to the University of Nazarbayev in Kazakhstan, followed a month later by the announcement of the construction of the twenty-first century maritime Silk Road, the Belt and Road Initiative has...

Section 1: Maritime Informatics as a better glue -- The Origins of Maritime Informatics -- Shipping: A Self-Organising Ecosystem -- The Necessity of Standards for Maritime Informatics in Ship Operations -- The Port as a set of Socio-Technical Systems -- Digitalisation in maritime regional and...

Die Seeverkehrswirtschaft ist ein Wirtschaftsbereich zur Produktion von Seetransport- und Hafenleistungen im Rahmen der Ortsveränderung von Gütern und Personen. Sie ist Bestandteil der Seewirtschaft, der Transport- oder Verkehrswirtschaft und des Außenhandels. Das Kompendium, das sowohl als...

The book is aimed at a wide audience, including academics, economic geography, spatial planning and regional policy researchers, institutional leaders and managers, national and institutional policy makers, practitioners, administrators, master's and senior bachelor's students on related...