Safety of Sea Transportation: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation (TransNav 2017), June 21-23, 2017, Gdynia, Poland
About this ebook
Safety of Sea Transportation will focus on the following themes:
- Sustainability, intermodal and multimodal transportation
- Safety and hydrodynamic study of hydrotechnical structures
- Bunkering and fuel consumption
- Gases emission, water pollution and environmental protection
- Occupational accidents
- Supply chain of blocks and spare parts
- Electrotechnical problems
- Ships stability and loading strength
- Cargo loading and port operations
- Maritime Education and Training (MET)
- Human factor, crew manning and seafarers problems
- Economic analysis
- Mathematical models, methods and algorithms
- Fishery
- Legal aspects
- Aviation
About the author
Adam Weintrit, Full Professor, DSc, PhD, FRIN, FNI, Master Mariner, is head of the Navigational Department (since 2003) and Dean of the Faculty of Navigation (2008-2016) of the Gdynia Maritime University, Poland. He received his M.Sc degree from Gdynia Maritime University, Faculty of Navigation (1985), DSc and PhD degree (1992) and habilitation degree (2004) from Warsaw Technical University, Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography. He has over 30 years’ experience in teaching and research works in the field of maritime navigation, sea transport, telematics, geomatics, hydrography, cartography, geodesy and safety at sea.
Adam has published more than 280 reports and papers in journals and conference proceedings and is the author of 18 books on navigation, including 5 handbooks on ECDIS and electronic charts and co-editor of 15 monographs. He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal ofn Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation (TransNav).
Tomasz Neumann is Assistant Professor at the Gdynia Maritime University, Poland. He received his M. Sc. degree from the University of Gdansk in 2007. He has co-authored several books on marine navigation and maritime transportation with Adam Weintritt and is Associate Editor of the International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation (TransNav).
