Maritime Policy & Management, Volume 44, Issue 3, April 2017

Maritime Policy & Management, Volume 44, Issue 3, April 2017 is now available online. This new issue contains the following articles:

Original Articles

Pursuing a career at sea: an empirical profile of South African cadets and implications for career awareness
Shaun Ruggunan & Herbert Kanengoni
Pages: 289-303 | DOI: 10.1080/03088839.2016.1275859

Analysis of occupational accidents encountered by deck cadets in maritime transportation
Özkan Uğurlu, Serdar Kum & Yusuf Volkan Aydoğdu
Pages: 304-322 | DOI: 10.1080/03088839.2016.1245449

Safe manning of merchant ships: an approach and computer tool
Alexandre Alapetite & Igor Kozine
Pages: 323-335 | DOI: 10.1080/03088839.2016.1276305

Towards safety improvement: implementation and assessment of new standards of competence for Electro-Technical Officers on ships
Janusz Mindykowski
Pages: 336-357 | DOI: 10.1080/03088839.2016.1275861

Characteristics and consequences of the cruise traffic seasonality on ports: the Spanish Mediterranean case
Jeronimo Esteve-Perez & Antonio Garcia-Sanchez
Pages: 358-372 | DOI: 10.1080/03088839.2017.1295326

Heuristic estimation of container stacking and reshuffling operations under the containership delay factor and mega-ship challenge
Amir Gharehgozli, Joan P. Mileski & Okan Duru
Pages: 373-391 | DOI: 10.1080/03088839.2017.1295328

Terminal investment timing decisions in a competitive setting with uncertainty using a real option approach
Shiyuan Zheng & Rudy R. Negenborn
Pages: 392-411 | DOI: 10.1080/03088839.2016.1274832