1. Setting higher standards in shipping

   • Leonard Holder

   Editorial Pages: 1 - 3

2. Shipboard manning

   • Michael L. Barnett
   • Colin J. Stevenson
   • Douglas W. Lang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 32

3. Introduction to an innovative crew composition approach based on safety/operational and financial requirements

   • Dimitrios V. Lyridis
   • Nikolaos P. Ventikos
   • Harilaos N. Psaraftis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 55

4. Use of simulators in assessment, learning and teaching of mariners

   • Hiroaki Kobayashi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 75

5. New structure of Sailing Directions

   • Jens Schröder-Fürstenberg

   OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 94

6. Ship ballast water as a main vector of marine introductions in the Mediterranean Sea

   • Maria Monia Flagella
   • Ameer A. Abdulla

   OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 104

7. Reliable container line supply chains

   • Zaili Yang
   • Steve Bonsall
   • Jin Wang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 120

8. Book reviews

   • Günther Zade
   • Jens-Uwe Schröder

   BookReview Pages: 123 - 127