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Logistical Asia

Author : Brett Neilson

Publisher : Springer

Page : 307 pages

File Size : 39,84 MB

Release : 2018-05-01

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9811083339

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Book Description

This book explores how the management science of logistics changes working lives and contributes to the making of world regions. With a focus on the port of Kolkata and changing patterns of Asian regionalism, the volume examines how logistics entwine with political power, historical forces, labour movements, and new technologies. The contributors ask how logistical practices reconfigure both Asia’s relation to the world and its internal logic of transport and communication. Building on critical perspectives that understand logistics as a political technology for producing and organizing space and power, Logistical Asia tracks how digital technologies and material infrastructure combine to remake urban and regional territories and produce new forms of governance and subjectivity.



A History of Architecture and Trade

Author : Patrick Haughey

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 372 pages

File Size : 35,48 MB

Release : 2018-01-19

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 1351796798

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A History of Architecture and Trade draws together essays from an international roster of distinguished and emerging scholars to critically examine the important role architecture and urbanism played in the past five hundred years of global trading, moving away from a conventional Western narrative. The book uses an alternative holistic lens through which to view the development of architecture and trade, covering diverse topics such as the coercive urbanism of the Dutch East India Company; how slavery and capitalism shaped architecture and urbanization; and the importance of Islamic trading in the history of global trade. Each chapter examines a key site in history, using architecture, landscape and urban scale as evidence to show how trade has shaped them. It will appeal to scholars and researchers interested in areas such as world history, economic and trade history and architectural history.



Laytime and Demurrage

Author : John Schofield

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 676 pages

File Size : 17,95 MB

Release : 2021-09-21

Category : Law

ISBN : 1000426912

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Laytime and Demurrage is the leading authority for all queries pertaining to this vital aspect of maritime law. It has continued to offer reliable, authoritative, and in-depth analysis since the first edition published in 1986. Praised for its unrivalled coverage and lucid writing style, this book provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of laytime and demurrage, tracing the development of the law from its origins in the nineteenth century right up to the present day. The author delivers an in-depth analysis of both fixed and customary laytime clauses, the rules relating to commencement of laytime in berth, dock and port charters, and discusses under which circumstances laytime can be suspended. Furthermore, it analyses demurrage rules and vital issues such as despatch, detention and frustration. This eighth edition includes all key judicial and arbitral decisions reported since the seventh edition published in 2016. It also covers suffixes in connection with laytime measured in terms of Working days and Weather Working Days, and disputes arising from tender of NORs at the end of the sea passage. Laytime and Demurrage is an invaluable guide for both legal practitioners and maritime professionals worldwide, including commodity traders and brokers, shipping companies, P&I Clubs, shipowners, charterers, and arbitrators.



Class Conflict and Modernization in India

Author : Aniruddha Bose

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 275 pages

File Size : 25,95 MB

Release : 2017-09-05

Category : History

ISBN : 1317333225

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In the days of the British Raj Calcutta was a great port city. Thousands of men, women, and children worked there, loading and unloading valuable cargoes that sustained the regional economy, and contributed significantly to world trade. In the second half of the nineteenth century, in response to a shift from sailing ships to steamers, port authorities in Calcutta began work on a massive modernization project. This book is the first study of port labor in colonial Calcutta and British India. Drawing on primary source material, including government documents and newspaper records, the author demonstrates how the modernization process worsened class conflict and highlights the important part played by labor in the shaping of the port’s modernization. Class Conflict and Modernization in India places this history in a comparative context, highlighting the interconnected nature of port and port labor histories. It examines how the port’s modernization affected the port workforce and the port’s managers, as well as the impact on class formation that emerged as labourers resisted through acts of everyday resistance and organized strikes. A detailed study of state power, technological change, and class conflict, this book will be of interest to academics of modern Indian history, labour history and the history of science and technology.



ProjectX India

Author : Sandeep Sharma

Publisher : Sandeep Sharma

Page : 142 pages

File Size : 39,12 MB

Release : 2024-07-01

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN :

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Stay ahead in the fast-paced Indian market with ProjectX India | 1st July 2024 edition. This comprehensive e-book delivers in-depth information on 264 projects, contracts, and tenders across 56 sectors and sub-sectors, making it an essential resource for professionals in the Construction, Infrastructure, and Industrial sectors. Key highlights include: 111 Projects in Conceptual/Planning Stage: Identify and track projects in the initial stages to gain a competitive edge. 41 Contract Awards: Stay informed about the latest contract winners in your industry. 117 Projects Under Implementation: Monitor ongoing projects to understand their potential impact on your business. 90 Tenders: Access up-to-date tender information to drive your business forward. 5 Additional Projects: Explore niche opportunities in specialized sectors. Please Note: Some information in this edition, such as tender deadlines, may be dated, but it remains highly valuable for tracking sectoral opportunities and understanding market trends. This data will help you strategize and position your business to capitalize on new projects in India, contract awards, tenders information, and developments in construction projects, infrastructure projects, and industrial projects. This edition of ProjectX India is designed to keep you informed about the latest developments and opportunities in the Indian market. Whether you're looking to expand your business or secure key contracts, this e-book provides the insights you need to stay ahead in a competitive environment. Empower your business with actionable information—download your copy of ProjectX India today and stay ahead of industry trends!



River of Life, River of Death

Author : Victor Mallet

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 339 pages

File Size : 36,64 MB

Release : 2017-10-13

Category : History

ISBN : 0191089435

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India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India. The waterway that has nourished more people than any on earth for three millennia is now so polluted with sewage and toxic waste that it has become a menace to human and animal health. Victor Mallet traces the holy river from source to mouth, and from ancient times to the present day, to find that the battle to rescue what is arguably the world's most important river is far from lost. As one Hindu sage told the author in Rishikesh on the banks of the upper Ganges (known to Hindus as the goddess Ganga) - 'If Ganga dies, India dies. If Ganga thrives, India thrives. The lives of 500 million people is no small thing.' Drawing on four years of first-hand reporting and detailed historical and scientific research, Mallet delves into the religious, historical, and biological mysteries of the Ganges, and explains how Hindus can simultaneously revere and abuse their national river. Starting at the Himalayan glacier where the Ganges emerges pure and cold from an icy cave known as the Cow's Mouth and ending in the tiger-infested mangrove swamps of the Bay of Bengal, Mallet encounters everyone from the naked holy men who worship the river, to the engineers who divert its waters for irrigation, the scientists who study its bacteria, and Narendra Modi, the Hindu nationalist prime minister, who says he wants to save India's mother-river for posterity. Can they succeed in saving the river from catastrophe — or is it too late?



Global Governance and India’s North-East

Author : Ranabir Samaddar

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 202 pages

File Size : 39,99 MB

Release : 2019-06-04

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1000008681

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This book maps the convergence of governance and connectivity within Asia established through the spatial dynamics of trade, capital, conflict, borders and mobility. It situates Indian trade and governance policies within a broader Asian and global context. Focussing on India’s North-East, in particular on India’s Look and Act East Policy, the volume underscores how logistical governance in the region can bring economic and political transformations. It explores the projected development of the North-East into a gateway of transformative cultural interaction among people, just as the Silk Road became a conduit for Buddhism to travel along with musical instruments and tea. Comprehensive and topical, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of political studies, international relations, governance studies, development studies, international trade and economics and for think tanks working on South and Southeast Asia.



New Futures for BIMSTEC

Author : Adluri Subramanyam Raju

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 172 pages

File Size : 15,29 MB

Release : 2021-11-25

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1000480429

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BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) represents one of the most diverse regions of the world. Providing a unique link between South Asia and Southeast Asia, it brings together 1.5 billion people and a combined GDP of $2.7 trillion. This volume focuses on issues related to connectivity, commerce, and security challenges facing BIMSTEC. It studies BIMSTEC’s relevance as an inter-governmental organization in the changing international milieu. The volume discusses the necessity of connectivity to enhance Bay solidarity and analyses the political, strategic and security concerns that restrain commercial connectivity. It also looks at the Bay of Bengal region as a zone of competition—and possible collaboration—between the littoral countries and major powers involved in the region. Comprehensive and topical, this volume will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of international relations, South Asian studies, foreign policy, diplomacy, Southeast Asian studies, defence and strategic affairs, maritime studies, international trade, regional cooperation, and political studies.



The Underbelly of the Indian Boom

Author : Stuart Corbridge

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 198 pages

File Size : 31,4 MB

Release : 2016-02-05

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1317610458

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As India emerges as a major economic power, producing dollar billionaires rising at the rate of 17 per year, more than 800 million Indians eke out a living on less than two dollars a day. This book takes the reader to the underbelly of the Indian boom, an India that is not shining but is struggling to survive. From the Indo-Soviet Bhilai Steel Plant in Chhattisgarh, where an aristocracy of labour is increasingly being replaced by a more vulnerable contract labour force, we move to the banks of the Hoogly River. Here, Norwegian shipping companies exploit a precarious labour force that is as vulnerable to the vagaries of global finance and its crisis as the elderly, especially women and wage-workers, who live in the slums of Chennai. Also in Tamil Nadu, but this time in Tiruppur, we find that the garment and textile industries boom has nurtured new regimes of debt bondage among industrial workers. Though public concern about the vulnerability in which poor people find themselves has resulted in new nation-wide schemes framed in the language of rights, we find in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh that the practical workings of these schemes are dependent on the regional political systems in which they are enmeshed. We end in the belly of the Maoist-inspired Naxalite insurgency, denounced by the Indian government as the country’s greatest security challenge, where the poor are being mobilised to rise against the injustices of the Indian state. This book was originally published as a special issue of Economy and Society.



Globalisation and the Changing Face of Port Infrastructure

Author : Prabir De

Publisher : Peter Lang

Page : 204 pages

File Size : 21,70 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9783034300056

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Book Description

Inefficient ports can stall a country's trade growth and also increase the costs of transportation. Rising inefficiencies in ports have therefore forced the governments all over the world to deregulate the port system. The port sector in several developing countries has been undergoing revolutionary transformation from a subsistence infrastructure resource into a more capital intensive, commercially oriented facility during the last two decades. In India, awareness towards the impact of port infrastructure on economic development in general and international trade in particular has increased in recent years partly as a result of rising trade transportation costs. One of the objectives of this book is therefore to understand the role the port plays in India's economic development. The book tries to quantitatively evaluate the structural metamorphosis in Indian port sector. The main emphasis of the book is on performance evaluation, technological change, total factor productivity growth, market concentration, and competitiveness of Indian ports for the last two and a half decades. This book deals with these vital issues and questions through a detailed analytical framework. Above all, one protracted objective of this book is to create a ground for discussion on various aspects of port development and the resultant policy action.