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Set sail for Africa and the Far East with this iconic tale of adventure from the author of Heart of Darkness.
In this semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale, Charles Marlow, Joseph Conrad's alter ego, shares the story of his first journey to the East. At the age of twenty, he becomes second mate aboard the ship the Judea. But disaster awaits the vessel after it leaves England, loaded with hundreds of tons of coal on its way to Thailand.
A fierce storm at sea, followed by a fire and explosion, tests Marlow and the Judea's crew, and the account of their hardships on the long journey to Bangkok is a riveting tale of survival from Conrad, a veteran of the British merchant marine and the author of such classics as The Secret Sharer.
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Evaluating Profitability of Individual Timber Deliveries in the US South
Timber transportation is an essential and often unprofitable segment of the wood supply chain. This study evaluated the profitability of individual timber deliveries for log truck owners in the US South. Origin and destination data were collected from 909 deliveries from 257 harvest sites. Travel time and distance were estimated using ArcGIS and GPS tracking. Monte Carlo Simulation was used to calculate 1000 unique combinations of payload, harvest site turn-time, mill turn-time, and percent-loaded km, yielding a dataset of 909,000 deliveries. Hauling costs and revenues for each delivery were estimated using published estimates. Driver wages were estimated in two ways: an hourly wage of $30.60 (USD) and 30% of the gross revenue from the load being delivered. Logistic regression was used to evaluate the relationship between six dependent variables and profitability. Only 14% of deliveries were profitable when the driver was paid an hourly wage versus 42% when the driver was paid 30% of gross revenue. Deliveries with one-way haul distances between 49 and 113 km (31–70 mi) were least likely to be profitable. Many deliveries could be profitable if logging businesses and mills reduced turn-times to under 20 min at mills and 30 min at harvest sites.
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The Evolution of Logging Businesses in Georgia 1987–2017 and South Carolina 2012–2017
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Surveys of logging business owners and managers have been conducted at five-year intervals in Georgia since 1987 and in South Carolina beginning in 2012. The surveys have documented trends in logging businesses and how they respond to changing timber markets. The response rate to the 2017 survey was approximately 20 percent in both states. Eighty-six percent of Georgia and 78 percent of South Carolina logging businesses used feller-buncher/grapple-skidder systems, and 11 percent and 20 percent of businesses owned chippers in Georgia and South Carolina, respectively. Average weekly production in Georgia increased by 95 percent in 1987–2017, but increases in recent years have been modest. The long-term trend in both states is toward fewer, larger businesses. The percentage of annual timber volume harvested by high production logging businesses (> 2,500 tons wk−1) increased from 32 percent in Georgia in 1997 to 63 percent in Georgia and 52 percent in South Carolina in 2017, while the number of logging businesses declined by 34 percent in Georgia and 50 percent in South Carolina. Median owner/manager age was 53 and 57 years in Georgia and South Carolina, respectively, and approximately one-third of respondents were over 60 years of age. Mill quota and trucking/insurance were the most commonly cited challenges facing logging business owners in 2017.
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Costs and Challenges of Log Truck Transportation in Georgia, USA
In the Southern U.S., timber is transported from harvest sites to mills by many small trucking companies. Few studies have examined the structure and challenges facing these businesses. This study involved interviews with 18 log truck owners operating in the state of Georgia, USA. Participants operated in all forested regions of Georgia and included wood dealers, contract haulers, logging businesses, logging and trucking businesses, and large, diversified trucking businesses. Fleet sizes ranged from zero trucks (recently ceased hauling) to more than 50 log trucks. Log trucks were driven an average of 127,324 km year−1 and delivered an average of 17,410 t year−1. Participants averaged 48% loaded km. Analysis suggests the current combination of average payload, percent-loaded km, and published haul rates make it difficult for log trucking companies to be profitable. The most important challenges faced by log truck owners were a shortage of qualified drivers and rising truck insurance premiums, which were identified as the greatest challenge by 44% and 39% of participants, respectively. Increasing percent-loaded km, reducing turn times at mills and harvest sites, providing driver training, and adopting technologies, such as global positioning system tracking and onboard cameras, could improve transportation efficiency and safety.
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اللورد جيم : رواية عالمية
تدور الرواية حول جيم، شاب بريطاني يعمل ضابطا بحريا. جيم يحلم بالبطولة والمغامرة، ولكنه يجد نفسه في موقف صعب عندما يتخلى عن سفينته \"باتنا\" التي كان مسؤولا عنها بعدما ظن أنها على وشك الغرق، هذه الخيانة تصبح النقطة المحورية في حياته، حيث يشعر بالعار والذنب الشديدين، بعد الحادث، يحاول جيم الهروب من ماضيه والتخلص من الشعور بالذنب، يتنقل من مكان لآخر في محاولة لإعادة بناء حياته، لكنه لا يستطيع الهروب من السمعة السيئة التي تلاحقه بسبب تخليه عن السفينة وركابها، في نهاية المطاف، يصل جيم إلى مستوطنة نائية تدعى باتوسان، حيث يجد فرصة جديدة ليصبح بطلا ويكفر عن ذنوبه. هناك، يحظى باحترام السكان المحليين، ويصبح قائدا ورمزا للشرف. لكنه يواجه مرة أخرى تحديات تتعلق بالشرف والخيانة، مما يؤدي إلى مصير مأساوي.
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Productivity and Cost of Processors in Whole-Tree Harvesting Systems in Southern Pine Stands
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Logging businesses in the US South have not adopted cut-to-length harvesting systems. Adding dangle head processors on the landing of whole-tree harvesting systems may allow southern loggers to achieve some of the advantages of cut-to-length systems (i.e., precise length and diameter measurements) while maintaining high productivity and low costs per ton characteristic of current whole-tree systems. We conducted a designed study of conventional (i.e., feller-buncher, grapple skidder, loader) and processor (i.e., feller-buncher, grapple skidder, processor, loader) systems. Four harvest sites were split, with half of each site harvested by a conventional system and the other half by a processor system. Harvesting productivity was estimated using time-and-motion studies, and costs were estimated using the machine rate method. Cut-and-load costs averaged US$13.57 and US$14.67 ton–1 on the processor and conventional harvests, respectively (P > .10). Cost per ton was elevated on several conventional harvest tracts because of long skidding distances, indicating harvest planning is more important than harvesting system in determining harvesting costs. Processing and loading costs were US$1.70 ton–1 higher on processor harvests, which, combined with restrictive mill quotas being more problematic for processor crews, suggests loggers will require a logging rate premium in order to invest in processors.
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