South Caucasus (also referred to as Transcaucasus), is a region situated to the south of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range, composed of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. Due to the rich oil reserves of the Caspian Sea basin and geostrategic importance of the Caucasus as a crossroad between...

Started in February 2009 the FP7 project RISING has for objective the development and testing of new River Information Services for the European inland water transport (IWT) sector. In contrast to other RIS projects, RISING focuses exclusively on the current and future needs of the European...

The Black Sea region lies at the crossroads of major oil and gas export flows to the world energy markets. Wider Black Sea area is increasingly becoming very important in terms of energy production, transportation and distribution. Last global tendencies in energy field indicate that the Black...

Business cycles are – as in definition of Burns and Mitchell -a type of fluctuation found in the aggregate economic activity of nations that organize their work mainly in business enterprises: a cycle consists of expansions occurring at about the same time in many economic activities, followed...

The purpose of this paper is to perform an analysis of the history of the Total Quality Management (TQM) in the private sector, taking a closer look at its five stages in the Western hemisphere: quality inspection, statistical quality control, system-oriented quality assurance, company-wide...

The presence of risk in almost every human situation, activity and sector has determined the increasingly rapid development of the risk management discipline. Depending on the context, there are various descriptions of what risk management involves. Like in many other industries, oil and gas...

The European Seas and Territorial Development, Opportunities and Risks (ESaTDOR) project, financed by ESPON, was intended to analyze the current state of maritime regions, opportunities and risks for territorial development, as well as their effects on maritime regions under different scenarios...

Among excellence models in public administrations in the EU, CAF and EFQM are used most. In use are also models that countries have adapted or designed themselves (for example: the Swedish Quality Model, used since 1992, INK developed by the Netherlands and also used by Belgium, and KVIK in Denmark)

The essence of a good plan is knowing the limits within which the ship may be navigated in safety. The essential questions which the Navigating Officer must be able to answer at all times during a pilotage passage are: Is the ship on track? If not, where is the ship in relation to the track and...

An important analysis of the parameters of global competitiveness, in shipping industry, shows that there is a series of issues that can be reviewed and interpreted on the basis of new models. One of the models based on which we could analyze economic competitiveness is the transformational...