Contemporary Container Security

Zusatztext

<div><div>This book belongs to the<b>Port Economics and Global Supply Chain Management</b> strand of the<i>Palgrave Studies in Maritime Economics</i> book series, commissioned by Hercules Haralambides.</div></div><div><br></div>This book addresses the security of the global system of maritime-based trade, with a focus on container security. Existing discussions about maritime security are almost always tactical, myopic, and fragmented. This book strives to overcome such defects by discussing maritime security from its myriad perspectives how we should think about it, how we could measure it, and how we can better manage/control it. In this way, the authors examine the ways in which maritime stakeholders can and should work together to build a more secure and resilient global system of maritime trade.<p></p>

Autorenportrait

<div><div><b>Girish Gujar </b>is a visiting lecturer at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China. He is an ex-marine chief engineer with over a decade long sea faring experiences on board various kinds of ships. Also, he has extensive experience in the logistics industry having worked in India, Middle East and Europe for 15 years.</div><div><b> </b></div><div><b>Adolf K.Y. Ng </b>is Professor of Transport and Supply Chain Management at the Asper School of Business of the University of Manitoba, Canada. He is also an Associate Editor of <i>Maritime Policy & Management</i>, Senior Editor of the <i>European Journal of International Management</i>, and an editorial board member of several reputable scholarly journals in transport and logistics. </div><div><b> </b></div><div><b>Zaili Yang </b>is Professor of Maritime Transport at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He is a member of editorial boards of seven international journals and has also served as a member of review boards for national research councils of USA, UK, Norway, and China. He has won several awards for his research work. </div></div><div> </div>

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