Containerization in Maritime Transport: Contemporary Trends and Challenges

Containerization in Maritime Transport addresses challenges to maritime transport and containerization, beginning with economic and managerial factors, through organizational, technical, operational, information and IT challenges, and ending with ecological challenges- to lessen the environmental impacts of maritime transport.

UG Professor Emeritus Eugeniusz Gostomski, Ph.D., is a long-standing academic employee of the Department of International Business at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Gdańsk, a member of a supervisory board of a stock exchange-listed company. He specializes in the field of economic analysis and international maritime trade, with particular consideration of German economy. He is an author of numerous monographs, including German Economy, International Banking, and International Maritime Trade.

WSB Associate Professor Ryszard Miler, Ph.D., is a director of the Baltic Sea Centre of Applied Logistics at the Faculty of IT and New Technologies at WSB in Gdańsk and an academic employee of the WSB-DSW Scientific Federation. He holds the title of European Senior Logistician, awarded by the European Logistics Association. He specializes in the field of logistics management, telematics systems and maritime transport. He is an author of numerous scientific monographs, including Safety and Security of Maritime Transport and Telematics Solutions in Maritime and Inland Waterway Transport.

Assistant Professor Tomasz Nowosielski, Ph.D., is an academic employee of the Department of Transport and Maritime Trade at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Gdańsk. His scientific interests include land and maritime transport systems, globalization processes and the protection of marine environment. He is a co-author of several monographs, including International Maritime Trade and Evolution and Significance of Maritime Ports in EU Countries.