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"With it's mix of academic analysis and more practical business-focused viewpoints and advice the updated Handbook of Maritime Economics and Business provides a valuable current view of key principles.
As Prof Grammenos indicated, the dynamics of the underlying forces affecting shipping markets and finance in the eight years since the first edition are likley to mean that in a further eight years the picture could well have changed dramatically once again and in ways that are not immediately predictable."
Steve Matthews, Lloyd's List, Thursday July 22, 2010
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"....There is considerable new material in the Handbook, from an analysis of freight rates fluctuations…to measures for controlling air pollution from ships… to a discussion of capital markets as a source in shipping finance. 
The range of shipping issues presented is certainly broad, not to mention thorough, from International Seaborne Trade and Shipping Investment Finance and Strategy, to International Logistics and IT.
The Handbook, in short, is an important work of reference which will prove of immense value to everyone involved in the economic and business aspects of shipping."
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Professor Costas Th. Grammenos, the editor, is a leading academic who has held a chair in Shipping, Trade and Finance at City University London's Cass Business School since 1986. He is founder of its International Centre for Shipping, Trade and Finance (1983), and was President of the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME). He was awarded
a CBE (Hon) in 2009 for his contribution to teaching and research.

The Handbook of Maritime Economics and Business covers a vast number of topics in the broad areas of maritime economics and business, including:

• Shipping Economics and Maritime Nexus
• International Seaborne Trade
• Economics of Shipping Market and Shipping Cycles
• Economics of Shipping Sectors
• Issues in Liner Shipping
• Economics of Maritime Safety and Seafaring Labour Market
• National & International Shipping Policies
• Aspects of Shipping Management and Operations
• Shipping Investment & Finance
• Port Economics and Management
• Shipping Strategy
• Aspects of International Logistics

It is an indispensable reference book for apprentice and experienced practitioners in the maritime business world, as well as for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Written by a team of experts including:

Prof. Gelina Harlaftis & Dr. Ioannis Theotokas
Prof. Douglas K. Fleming
Prof. Mary R. Brooks
Prof. Michael Tamvakis
Prof. Manfred Zachcial
Prof. Merv Rowlinson & Prof. Patrick Alderton
Prof. Siri Pettersen Strandenes
Dr. Martin Stopford
Dr. David Glen & S. Christy
Prof. Enrico Musso, Ana Cristina Paixao Casaca, Ana Rita Lynce
Prof. William Sjostrom
Prof.  Trevor D. Heaver
Prof. Wayne K. Talley
Prof. Michael Roe
Prof. Peter Marlow & Dr. Kyriaki Mitrousi
Prof. A. Guldem Cerit & Dr Cimen Karatas Cetin
Prof. Anastassios N. Perakis
Prof. Photis M. Panayides, Stephen X.H. Gong & Dr. Neofytos Lambertides
Prof. Helen Thanopoulou
Prof. Helen Bendall
Prof. Manolis G. Kavussanos
Prof. Eddy Van de Voorde & Prof. Hilde Meersman
Prof. Kunio Miyashita
Ulla Tapaninen, Dr. Lauri Ojala, Dr. David Menachof
Prof. Alfred J. Baird
Dr. Jan Hoffman, Prof. Shashi Kumar
Prof. Joon Soo Jon
Dr. Andreas Vergottis, William Homan-Russell, Gordon Hui & Micheal Voutsinas
Dr. Shuo Ma
Prof. Kevin Cullinane
Dr. Amir H. Alizadeh, Nikos K. Nomikos
Prof. Costas Th. Grammenos
Kurt Vermeulen
Prof. Theodore Syriopoulos

The Handbook of Maritime Business and Economics has become an essential text book for maritime, Undergraduate, MSc and PhD level courses.