MARINE AND TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT PROJECT TOPICS AND RESEARCH MATERIALS

• 21. AN ASSESSMENT OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AIRFARES AND AIRCRAFT MOVEMENTS IN NIG...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The Aviation industry can be defined as those activities that are directly related to the transporting of people and goods by air from one location to another (Onyeanu, 2009). Airline industry plays a major role in every countries economic activity and it aids in opening up of the countries market to both local and foreign investors (Samuel, 2006). ...Continue Reading »

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• 22. IMPACT OF RUNWAY CAPACITY ON FLIGHT EFFICIENCY AND DELAY

  » Transportation is a vital activity in moving both freight and passengers around the world. It is one of the tools that civilized societies need soas to bring order out of chaos, because it cuts across every phase and facet of our existence. Air transport is relatively expensive when compared with other modes of transport likewater, road and rail system respectively. However, air transport is the f...Continue Reading »

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• 23. THE EFFECT OF LOGISTICS INDUSTRY ON THE ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA (A CASE STUDY...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study It is expedient to note that, over 90 percent of International Trade is done by sea or carried by ships. It is believed that on daily basis, these ships move millions of tons of cargoes comprising goods and commodities, fuel, crude oil, raw materials, machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, medicaments, around the world. The situation is not differ...Continue Reading »

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• 24. AN EVALUATION OF NIGERIAN PORTS POST-CONCESSION PERFORMANCE

  » Abstract Concession has been acknowledged as a valuable tool for port authorities to retain control of ports and shape the supply side of the terminal market, in the absence of full privatisation. This study empirically examines the influence of transfer of port operational services from the public to the private sector, through concession contracts on operational performance in the context of the...Continue Reading »

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• 25. EFFECTIVENESS OF LASTMA ON TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Traffic management is the practice of managing the existing traffic environment to create avenue for free flow of traffic, to control and manage traffic proceedings. Prior to 1999, the transport and vehicular traffic situation in Lagos State was in a state of neglect and confusion. There was terrible and high vehicle density in the state, st...Continue Reading »

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• 26. REDUCTION OF OIL SPILLAGE IN NIGER DELTA USING WOOD PLASTIC COMPOSITE FROM SAW D...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY Composite is the combination of a matrix and a reinforcement, which when combined gives properties superior to those of the individual components (Ashori & Nourbakhsh 2009a). Wood plastic composite (WPC) is therefore a combination of wood and plastic with the plastic as the matrix and the wood as the reinforcement. Wood plastic composite, (W...Continue Reading »

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• 27. FORECASTING CARGO GROWTH AND REGIONAL ROLE OF THE PORT OF NIGERIA

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• 28. CONCESSION AS A STRATEGIC TOOL FOR PORTS EFFICIENCY :AN ASSESSMENT OF THE NIGERI...

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• 29. ALTERNATIVE ECONOMETRIC APPROACHES FOR ANALYSING THE ROLE OF THE FINANCIAL SECTO...

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• 30. EFFECT OF PORT REFORM ON CARGO THROUGHPUT LEVEL AT ONNE SEAPORT NIGERIA

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• 31. EVOLUTION AND RESEARCH TRENDS OF CONTAINER SHIPPING

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• 32. PORT REGIONALIZATION: TOWARDS A NEW PHASE IN PORT DEVELOPMENT

  » AbstractLogistics integration and network orientation in the port and maritime industry have redefined the functional role of ports in value chains and have generated new patterns of freight distribution and new approaches to port hierarchy. Existing models on the spatial and functional evolution of ports and port systems only partially fit into the new freight distribution paradigm. This paper ai...Continue Reading »

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• 33. MARITIME LOGISTICS AS AN EMERGING DISCIPLINE

  » AbstractThe evolution of maritime logistics as an emerging discipline has resulted, to a large extent, from the increasing and varied demands of shippers and customers and the rapidly changing role of ports in the context of supply and logistics chains. Scholars are becoming increasingly aware of the need to integrate logistics and supply chain management concepts in the maritime transportation ch...Continue Reading »

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• 34. THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF SHIPPING INDUSTRY TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF NIGERIAN ECONOMY

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• 35. A STUDY OF MARITIME FRAUDS AND ITS EFFECTS ON WORLD SEABORNE TRADE

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• 36. THE GROWTH AND PATTERNS OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE

  » Maritime Policy and Management was first published in 1973. At that time, there was about $4.5 billion in world trade. Today, trade levels are in excess of $16 trillion, an increase in trade by a factor of about 35.1 Trade levels continue to increase, and over the last decade trade has grown faster than in previous decades.The growth in trade has placed a tremendous amount of pressure on the trans...Continue Reading »

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• 37. MARITIME TRANSPORT AND INTERNATIONAL SEABORNE TRADE

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE RESEARCH The phrase, ‘‘he who controls the trade, controls the world economy’’ has remained a truism. It may seem obvious to say that, today, we live in a global world, and it is certainly true the seaborne trade among all the nations and regions of the world are nothing new. From the Phoenicians, the Vikings, the Omanis, t...Continue Reading »

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• 38. IMPACT OF TRANSPORTATION ON ECONOMIC GROWTH: AN ASSESSMENT OF ROAD AND RAIL TRAN...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study One of the key factors that play a pivotal role in a region’s economic growth is the presence of a reliable and efficient transportation system, this is mainly due to the fact that a well developed transportation system provides adequate access to the region which in turn is a necessary condition for the efficient operation of manufacturin...Continue Reading »

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• 39. CRITIQUE OF THE PUBLIC CHOICE THEORY CASE FOR PRIVATIZATION PORT PERFORMANCE: AN...

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• 40. A STUDY OF PORT CONCESSIONING IN NIGERIA AND PRODUCTIVITY

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the study Maritime transport plays an important role of being many nations’ major gateway for international trade and are a good instrument for measuring the economic health of a nation (Ogunsiji & Ogunsiji, 2010, UNCTAD, 2008). The ports have considerable influence on the volume and conditions of trade as well as the capacity for economic developme...Continue Reading »

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