This study investigates determinants of the number of injured, deceased and missing occupants and the damage cost of passenger vessel accidents that were investigated by the US Coast Guard for the years 1991--2001. Negative binomial and Poisson regression estimates suggest that: (1)...

This paper investigate cost-recovery alternatives for US federally-operated vessel traffic service (VTS) systems. These include those currently used or have been used by VTS and ‘VTS-like’ systems and other feasible, but not used herefore, alternatives, a federal trust and a federal VTS...

The purpose of this paper is to review and analyze maritime transportation academic research. For articles published in <italic>Maritime Policy & Management</italic> (MPM) in the period 2001 to 2012, the most frequent topics addressed include shipping performance/management and shipping finance. For articles...