The contribution of the graduate students in TMGT 9100-02 Capstone for Fall 2017 to this LibGuide is gratefully acknowledged.
The Maritime Industry: The maritime industry comprises the ship engaged in the transportation of goods and commodities and the supporting facilities at the origin and destination points up to an including the terminal in-out gates and their functional equivalent in commodity shipment. This definition is meant to include anything that directly affects the performance of the ship.
The Maritime-Centric Supply Chain Industry: A maritime-centric supply chain comprises a group of organizations involved in the movement of goods wherein the maritime portion is indispensable to the success of the supply chain. That is, removing the maritime portion causes the supply chain to fail. By failure we mean that there is no reasonable substitute for the maritime portion. Examples of such supply chains include bulk commodities such as oil and grain, containerized traffic such as furniture and electrical machinery.
