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Jerónimo Esteve-Pérez and Manuel del Río-González
The Mediterranean Sea has been consolidated as the second most important destination region in cruise shipping. This paper investigates the dynamics of the contemporary cruise port network in Southern Europe from the perspective of its centrality. To con...
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Vivien Lorencic, Elen Twrdy and Milan Batista
Cruise shipping has been extremely popular in recent years, and one of the fastest-growing areas has been the Mediterranean. In the paper, we examine the evaluation of possible competitive?cooperative relationships among Mediterranean cruise ports for th...
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Yui-Yip Lau, Xiaodong Sun, Wenli Yang and Maneerat Kanrak
Global climate change accelerates ice melting in the Arctic region, making Arctic shipping possible and revealing a new door to develop cruise tourism. The rapid expansion of cruise tourism into the Arctic region has posed substantial implications for th...
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Jan Wislicenus and Nihad E. Daidzic
One of the most difficult steps in estimating the cruise performance characteristics of high-subsonic transport-category turbofan-powered airplanes is the estimation of the transonic wave drag. Modern jet airplanes cruise most efficiently in the vicinity...
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Mingshuo Cao, Yujia Liu, Tiantian Gai, Mi Zhou, Hamido Fujita and Jian Wu
This article proposes a comprehensive star rating approach for cruise ships by the combination of subject and objective evaluation. To do that, it firstly established a index system of star rating for cruise ships. Then, the modified TOPSIS is adopted to...
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Kathleen R. Bryce
This research provides an overview of the marketing issues facing Carnival Cruise Line after several high profile incidents. Carnival Cruise Lines has suffered several mishaps which have harmed its reputation and the reputation of the cruise industry in ...
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Liyuan Wang, Pengfei Zhou, Jiayang Gu and Yapeng Li
This study focuses on a large-scale cruise ship as the subject of research, with a particular emphasis on conditions not covered in the MSC.1/Circ.1533 guidelines. The investigation explores the impact of specific motion states of the cruise ship, includ...
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Xiliang Feng, Yue Zhu, Jin Gan, Ziheng Chen, Jing Li, Yongshui Lin and Weiguo Wu
Due to the tall and large superstructures of cruise ships, the wind-induced vibration of frame structure on open decks cannot be neglected. This study investigated the wind-induced vibration of a typical frame structure on a cruise ship by using wind tun...
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Peilun Ju and Jiacheng Song
To maintain a safe distance between the autonomous vehicle and the leader, ensure that the vehicle runs at its expected speed as far as possible, and achieve various control requirements such as speed, distance and collision avoidance, a model-free presc...
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Zhuang Xia, Hang Guan, Zixuan Qi and Peng Xu
Since the onset of the pandemic, the cruise industry has faced substantial challenges, experiencing an 81% year-on-year decline in 2020. Notably, China?s cruise industry has remained shuttered for nearly two years. The conventional epidemiological invest...
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Xiaoguang Zhang, Huixue Dang and Bin Li
The aerodynamic noise of an aircraft leads to vibration fatigue damage to structures. Herein, a prediction method for aircraft surface noise under the comprehensive effect of mixed acoustic sources during flight, primarily surface aerodynamic, air intake...
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Md Abdus Samad Kamal, Kotaro Hashikura, Tomohisa Hayakawa, Kou Yamada and Jun-ichi Imura
This paper presents Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) with look-ahead anticipation, based on the model of ACC used in recent commercial vehicles, to take early decisions in driving a vehicle on the freeway. The existing ACC found in the high-end cars has lim...
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Alberto Camarero Orive, Nicoletta González-Cancelas and Noelia Avilés López
The main objective of this article is to develop a methodology to detect, assess and prevent biosecurity-related risks. Currently, the main risk found in our daily life is COVID-19, which has triggered a serious global pandemic. As a result, economic and...
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Dmitry A. Ruban and Natalia N. Yashalova
The cruise industry has significant environmental impacts. Ethical prescriptions in codes of conduct of cruise companies can contribute to the development of pro-environmental behaviors. The content of the codes of conduct of the world?s largest cruise c...
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Majid Eskafi, Poonam Taneja and Gudmundur F. Ulfarsson
Maritime sectors have always dealt with uncertainties and disruptions. The COVID pandemic confronted the cruise industry with profound, wide-ranging, and lasting challenges while disrupting normal operations. Although the cruise industry contributes to t...
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Rulin Yao, Long Yu, Qidong Fan and Xuefeng Wang
Applying fin stabilizers is an effective solution for ship rolls on waves in a seaway. They generally consist of one or two pairs of retractable fins that are symmetrically mounted to both sides of the ship, effectively reducing the roll motion at low or...
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Luca Toneatti, Claudio Deluca, Alessandro Fraleoni Morgera, Marzio Piller and Dario Pozzetto
The newest cruise ships can guest a constantly increasing number of passengers and concentrate their environmental impact on the limited areas interested by their path. The generated solid waste contributes significantly to this impact; therefore, we pro...
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Marco Gianni, Andrea Pietra, Andrea Coraddu and Rodolfo Taccani
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has recently discussed the introduction of a new design index called the Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII), which is a measure of the total carbon dioxide emissions divided by the amount of cargo carried and b...
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Jose I. Rojas, Marc Melgosa and Xavier Prats
Wake vortex encounters (WVE) can pose significant hazard for en-route aircraft. We studied the sensitivity of wake vortex (WV) circulation and decay to aircraft mass, altitude, velocity, density, time of catastrophic wake demise event, eddy dissipation r...
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Linfan Liu, Huajun Zhang, Jupeng Xie and Qin Zhao
The emergency evacuation route planning of cruise ships directly affects the safety of all crew members and passengers during emergencies. Research on the planning of emergency evacuation routes for cruise ships is a frontier subject of maritime safety. ...
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