Review article
Quality management in coastal container liner shipping from the point of view of cost management
Juraj Bukša
; Lošinjska plovidba – Brodarstvo d.o.o.
Tomislav Bukša
; 3.MAJ Shipyard
Abstract
In order to improve quality and safety management in maritime transport the International Maritime Organization has brought in a large number of regulations and standards. Those rules and standards have lately become stricter in order to remove sub-standard vessels and shipping operators from the market. Application of the new regulations and standards regarding quality and safety management on board a vessel has incurred additional costs on shipping operators. Quality management costs are an increasingly important part of a shipping operator’s business costs. For that reason the common division of vessel costs into fixed costs, commercial costs and fuelling costs should be added quality management costs. Thanks to such a division of costs shipping operators can have more efficient business cost management and more accurate business plans.
Keywords
Quality; quality management; cost management; coastal container liner shipping
Hrčak ID:
75336
URI
Publication date:
28.12.2011.
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