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Maritime services form an integral part of what regulatory agencies requires for the safe navigation and operation of vessels. Therefore, the maritime industry's compliance with governmental regulations and international protocols has been essential for maritime safety management. As a basis to this aspect, the preparation of maritime students as the forthcoming maritime officers in the future has been a crucial point by the maritime educators in terms of maritime safety. Although English was adopted as the official language of the maritime industries by the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW Convention) in 1978, many difficulties remain in the teaching and assessing of Maritime English at maritime schools. Some research has examined these difficulties; however, no successful models for improving. Maritime English have been adopted Parallel to the teaching and assessing problems, there have also been many difficulties in reaching a training and testing proficiency in English communication that meets the international standards of the STCW requirements in the maritime industry. This paper concentrates upon the difficulties of teaching and assessing the outcomes of the teaching of Maritime Transportation English at the member schools of the International Association of Maritime Universities (IAMU) from all over the world. As a first step in the methodology of this study, a survey of techniques used at member schools of the IAMU is conducted to solve some difficulties in assessing the teaching of Maritime English. Then a positioning model is developed to identify and measure the positions of the IAMU member schools in comparison to one another by using a multidimensional scaling technique to analyse the multivariate data received through questionnaires. This information provides the foundation upon which the model of this research is built. Consequently, some strategies based upon the results of the analysis are developed to reduce the problems and difficulties in this context.

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Abstract. Green issues in industrial and supply chain business processes have been receiving exponentially growing attention over the past decade. Consumers are demanding green products and services more and more, and on the other side of the marketplace, businesses and industries are now much more responsive to green issues. Furthermore, businesses and industrial systems are, in present conditions, positively reacting to green issues. From an academic perspective, there are considerable numbers of research on this topic in various disciplines. Thus, for the green strategies with respect to the sustainable development, this paper delves into the literature of the significance of sustainability concept with an emphasis on the ecological dimension and then brings a range of essential perspectives along with the applied framework of environmental reporting of industrial and supply chain business processes.Keywords: eco-informatics, eco-management, greening, sustainable development, quality management, industrial processes, ERP. 2010-10-27; priimta 2010-11-23 Santrauka. Per pastarąjį dešimtmetį nuolat didėjo dėmesys ekologiškumo klausimams gamybos ir tiekimo grandinės verslo procesuose. Vartotojai vis daugiau ir daugiau reikalauja ekologiškų produktų bei paslaugų, rinka, verslo ir gamybos sistemos vis labiau jautresnės ekologiškumo klausimams. Esamomis sąlygomis verslo ir gamybos sistemos teigiamai reaguoja į tokio pobūdžio dalykus. Mokslo perspektyvos požiūriu nagrinėjamu klausimu yra atlikta nemažai tyrimų įvairių disciplinų lygmeniu. Taigi siekiant sukurti ekologiškumo strategiją atsižvelgiant į darnią plėtrą, straipsnyje nagrinėjama darnaus vystymosi koncepcija, akcentuojant ekologijos dimensiją, ir nustatomos esminės perspektyvos remiantis aplinkosaugos ataskaita apie gamybos ir tiekimo grandinės verslo procesus. APLINKOSAUGOS ATASKAITA APIE GAMYBOS IR TIEKIMO GRANDINĖS VERSLO PROCESUS DARNIOS PLĖTROS KONTEKSTEReikšminiai žodžiai: informacija apie aplinkosaugą, ekologijos vadyba, ekologiškumo didinimas, darni plėtra, kokybės valdymas, gamybos procesai, įmonės išteklių planavimas.