The great transition from farm to city is filled with economic, social, and political promise. Cities are the product of a triad of forces. This Economic Premise explores how the three forces of spatial transformation—physical infrastructure, human interactions, and public policy—come...

The Romanian maritime law consists of a set of legal rules contained in several acts. Among these are commercial code, ordinary laws, ordinances, government decisions, plus maritime usages. The Romanian maritime law also contains a number of provisions of international conventions ratified by...

This article describes the research conducted by the writer concerning the possibilities in enhancing the safety of ships and seaworthiness through risk management and marine insurance connected to new possibilities developed by research results achieved by solutions developed for Bridge...

Today, Paris MoU is recognized for having the highest applicable standards for inspecting ships arriving for operation in ports and areas of jurisdiction of the signatory states. The manner of performing Port State Control (PSC) is regulated by the provisions of the regional Memorandum of...

1982 Convention requires Member shall cooperate in this area and to exercise freedoms granted taking into consideration the interests of other countries and their rights on the international activities of the submarine areas. Seas must be used exclusively for peaceful purposes, is prohibited,...

This study develops the concept of integrated leadership in public sector, and particularly in portuar public services. Integrated leadership could be conceived as the combination of five leadership roles that are performed collectively by employees and managers at different levels of hierarchy....

During the performance in planning process of the traffic flows in an urban area, the case of Vlora City, a very important stage is the distribution trip phase or the build of the matrix of tripping O-D. For the build of this matrix is important the balanced table of trip, generated and...

In the spirit of The 2010 Manila Conference recommendations, concerning amendments to the International Convention on Standards applied of Training, Certification and Watch-keeping the or Seafarers, 1978 and to the Seafarers 'Training, Certification and Watch-keeping Code (STCW Convention and...

Globalization and the telecommunications revolution have brought to developments that were largely unanticipated. The first is the reemergence of the importance of regions and geographic proximity as important units of economic activity. That innovative activity has become more important is not...

As a member of the International Maritime Organization, requirements which should be fulfilled by Romania are differentiated on three main directions which are in the same time characteristics of a maritime state: costal state, flag state and port state. Those tree characteristics impose...