Cooperation amidst competition : the role of rubber in shaping Japanese and Straits Chinese relations in Malaya, 1914-1941 by Cao, Mingmin

“…The interwar years marked Japan’s southward economic advance into the Malayan rubber market involving large-scale agricultural land purchase and the proliferation of Japanese rubber exports through vigorous manufacturing and shipping. The successful attempt in the 1930s in capturing a large share of the domestic market for rubber products and its dominance in the rubber shipping sector posed strong competition to many European and Strait Chinese merchants who were forced to compete against large volumes of Japanese goods marked cheaply. …”
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Electron spin resonance evidence for electro-generated hydroxyl radicals by Pei, Shuzhao, You, Shijie, Ma, Jun, Chen, Xiaodong, Ren, Nanqi

“…Excessive addition of a DMPO agent and fast spin trapping allowed suitable kinetic conditions to be set for effective spin trapping of electro-generated •OH and subsequent ESR identification. …”
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Impacts of security initiatives implementation on the maritime industry by Lau, Tian Qin.

“…The shipping industry is often the target of maritime security threats like piracy and terrorism, thereby causing a need for the implementation of various maritime security initiatives. …”
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A study of risks in maritime transportation by Seah, Lay Ling.

“…Research interviews were conducted with liner shipping firms to find out the major risks encountered by them and effectiveness of their risk mitigation strategies. …”
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Impact of BREXIT on key stakeholders of the maritime industry in UK by Ching, Claudia Loke Wei

“…The role of UK in the global maritime industry is essential and significant, given its prevalence in the establishment of shipping routes that connects Europe to major regions in the world. …”
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An investigation of shippers’ satisfaction and behaviour towards corporate social responsibility in maritime transport by Wong, Yiik Diew, Yuen, Kum Fai, Thai, Vinh V.

“…The results contribute to TPB research application in both B2C and B2B contexts, and motivate changes to the current marketing and communication practices of shipping firms.…”
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Application of linear programming and optimisation software in an operations consultancy problem : a costs-minimising computerised optimisation model for empty container reposition... by Wang, Jiali., Chen, Hazel Shijia., Tan, Desmond Zhewen.

“…This paper considers the empty container repositioning problem in a multi-vessel, multi- port and multi-voyage shipping network with unbalanced customers’ demand and assumes that repositioning decisions are implemented in a rolling horizon manner. …”
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Empirical investigation on container port competition and cooperation by Aw, Bing Zong

“…Interviews and empirical investigations will reveal that ports‟ decisions are based on similar shipping dynamics with different emphasis on costs factors due to the current economic and competitive climate. …”
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Dual-channel vendor-buyer system with minimum purchase commitment and price-sensitive demand by Li, Bo

“…For the two channels, the direct channel is shipping from the vendor’s central distribution center (CDC) directly to the buyer’s warehouse, and the indirect channel is shipping from the CDC via vendor’s regional distribution center (RDC) to the buyer’s warehouse. …”
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Business contingency and continuity plan by maritime firms in Singapore by Muhammad Fahrur Razi Bin Yusoff

“…This paper aims to investigate the impact of disruption caused by the pandemic on shipping firms such as ship-owner firms and ship-management firms in Singapore and find out how these firms mitigate the impact through BCCP. …”
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Bunker procurement strategies of liner companies part I operational strategies to reduce bunker cost by Tay, Bing Fa.

“…However, there are several problems arising out of bunker procurement. Shipping markets inherently carry high risks, but the volatility of bunker prices adds further uncertainty for ship operators. …”
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Impact of BREXIT on key stakeholders of the maritime industry in Asia by Eng, Esther Cai Yun

“…These will impact the stakeholders, which are mainly shipping lines, port operators, ship owners, seafarers and maritime professionals. …”
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Application of parabolic reflector to harness solar energy by Valliappan, Arunachalam

“…Various methods at various places are suggested for trapping the solar energy.…”
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To study the current innovations and their effects on the maritime industry by Tay, Jadeline Bi Hui

“…In addition, these innovations resulted in shipping companies to employ LNG in the long term, increase freight rates due to the alternative fuels surcharge and invest in green ships due to GPI. …”
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Quality seaport : model building and empirical validation by Phang, Louise Foong Hung.

“…The interviews were done with representatives from the 3 main stakeholder groups, the regulatory authority – Maritime Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), the customers of the port – Glory Ship Management, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and American-Pacific Lines (APL), and the port’s terminal operators – Jurong Port (JP) and Port of Singapore Authority (PSA). …”
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Loading dynamics of cold atoms into a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber by Wang, Yu, Chai, Shijie, Xin, Mingjie, Leong, Wui Seng, Chen, Zilong, Lan, Shau-Yu

“…Cold atoms trapped and guided in hollow-core photonic crystal fibers provide a scalable diffraction-free setting for atom-light interactions for quantum technologies. …”
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Effect of embedded nanoparticle surface chemistry on plasmonic organic photovoltaic devices by Wong, Terence Kin Shun

“…Due to the tendency of the ligands in causing exciton quenching, carrier trapping and recombination, the device power conversion efficiency (PCE) can be lower than a BHJ device without NPs. …”
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Re-thinking the pricing strategy for containerised sea freight transportation by Ho, Philip Chee Keong.

“…This dissertation draws the experience from the airline industry to see how their success story can be adapted to revamp the pricing mechanism in the shipping industry.…”
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Spatial pricing and warehouse assortment in online retailing by Wang, Xuchen

“…In the first part of the thesis, we develop a profit-maximization model to make spatial pricing decisions consisting of indiscriminate product prices and a shipping policy that shares shipping costs with consumers. …”
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LNG bunkering infrastructure planning at port by Guo, Yu, Yan, Ran, Qi, Jingwen, Liu, Yannick, Wang, S., Zhen, Lu

“…There are three common methods of LNG bunkering: ship-to-ship, truck-to-ship, and port-to-ship. The objective of this study is to determine the optimal bunkering method at a port using an integer linear programming (ILP) model considering three kinds of costs: fixed, variable, and extra. …”
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