Harry Benford

Presentations at Meetings and Symposia

• “Assessing the Economics of Ice Navigation — The Great Lakes as a Case Study,” Western European Graduate Education in Marine Technology, Helsinki, Finland, March 1983.
• “The Role of Economics in Ship Design for Fuel Economy,” Western European Graduate Education in Marine Technology,” Gothenburg, Sweden, September 1983.
• “Ships’ Capital Costs: The Approaches of Economists, Naval Architects and Business Managers,” Ships’ Costs Conference, Cardiff, Wales, September 1984.
• “Ocean Transport — The Decade Past and the Decade Ahead,” Society of Naval Architects and Shipbuilding Technicians, Rijeka, Yugoslavia, March 1985.
• “On Placing our Bets for Survival: Priorities for Attempting Change in Maritime Transport,” Fourth International Shipbuilding and Ocean Engineering Conference, Helsinki, Finland, September 1986.
• “Integrating Ship Operations and Management for Best Economics,” keynote address for SNAME 1987 Ship Operations, Management and Economics Symposium, New York City, September 1987.
• “Manning the Ships of Developed Countries: An Alternative Approach,” Bicentennial Maritime Symposium, Sydney, Australia, January 1988.
• “Nurturing Creativity and Expediting Innovation in the Marine Industry,” Third Annual Chua Chor Teck Memorial Lecture, Singapore, 1989.

Selected Publications

• “Naval Manning Trends in Northern Europe, Implications for American Shipowners and Naval Architects,” Trans. SNAME, 1984.
• “A Get-Well Recipe for European Shipbuilders,” Maritime Policy and Management (British), Vol. 12, No. 2, April-June 1985.
• “Samuel Plimsoll: His Book and His Mark,” Seaway Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, Jan-March 1986.
• “A Naval Architect’s Guide to Practical Economics,” Report No. 319, Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, University of Michigan, 1991.
• Naval Architecture for Non-Naval Architects, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Jersey City, NJ, 1991.
• A Half-Century of Maritime Technology, (ed.), Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Jersey City, NJ, 1993.