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Articles of Interest
Richard Bertram
 * 1) Boat Building
 * 2) Marine propulsion
 * 3) Sport fishing boat
 * 4)  FV Alaska Ranger
 * 5)  Zim Integrated Shipping Services

Categories

 * 1) Bertram Boats
 * 2) B&B Yacht Design
 * 3) Volvo Penta Marine

WikiProjects
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Books
National Transportation Safety Board. (1996). Marine Accident Report: American Spirit. Washington, D.C.:National Transportation Safety Board ISBN: None This book provides all the critical details that are needed to research the vessil.It provides you with information about the acident from the fire to the emergency response, all the injuries,the damage done to the wessil, crew information, and the vessil information. It also talks about the hull structure and the processing equipment that was on board, as well as the wreckage and coast of damages. It also provides you the information about the research that has been done on how the ship caught fire.

Zim Integrated Shipping and Serice
They also spoke about the fact that 4 of there ships will be co owned by the Ofer group wich runs the Israli Corp. The Zim group also baught 2 larger ships so that they can cary more cargo within the asia europe route. In my eyes i believe that this article is talking about how powerful and how much the Zim company ownes. Muscal, Tal. (2004). Zim shipping company details $732 million fleet expansion. Jerusalem Post, 15.
 * 1) This First article i read spoke of a buisniness plan that was in play. The Zim company had purchaced a total of 12 new cargo vessils due to the industrys expantion. They developed a plan of what they are doing and how they are deviding these vessels. I found it so icredible how much they were able to lease 2 of there new ships to a British company, $23,000 a day.

They also beifly speak of a strike that is going on due to the large growth in the income of the Zim company and how much is going to the country and how much is going to the owners and CEO and all high ranking people of the company. Muscal, Tal. (2004). Zim moves Haifa hub to Italy. Jerusalem Post, 16.
 * 1) This article is talking about how the Zim company is changing there Israel port to Italy due to disputes in Israel over the import and export. In the article they talk about how sad it is that they need to do this since the city of Hifa is right in the middle of the European shipping industy.They also talk about there net growth of income in the comany and about there new ships that are being built that are so large that they can not go through the Panama Canal, but they are much faster than there older ships.

Zheng He
The Wiki article on Zheng He was accurate and I did not see any topics that were mentioned in both the wiki article and the encyclopedia that were in disagreement. I found that the greater source information was the wiki article due to what they provide you with the amount of information weather it is true or false. But the facts that were given to you that increased the amount of information were not maritime based where in the encyclopedia after giving a brief history they only talk about the maritime affairs that he was involved in. The greater thing about the encyclopedia was that It offered me more detailed information on the ships and the traveling of Zheng. The Wikipedia article was descriptive but it was not as descriptive as the encyclopedia but the difference was that the author of the wiki article happened to know more of the little facts that could help a reporter or a student doing research have a more descriptive report on the smaller things that could help them understand. My other thoughts on the wiki article are positive due to the fact that the lay out was much better showing you how things happened breaking down his voyages his chart plotting and everything else I found that to be very helpful and would catch onto a reader much more thoroughly than the encyclopedia with words not broken down. I could not challenge the facts weather they were found true or not about his life outside the maritime world. The difference in the source is that the encyclopedia is based off of books when the wiki article was based off of ever source including the web and books. Looking through the sources of the wiki article they all seamed like they followed the guidelines of Wikipedia they all look reliable. They are mostly books (encyclopedias or dictionaries of history) but the rest are all articles and journals and web citations. The writing style to me seemed to be just right because it was not too advanced full of words that I did not know, and it was not too basic making me feel like a fool reading it. It was just right and they put all the information straight forward and when I needed to look up something in a specific I just had to find the header that my topic would be under and it would be there within the reading. I personally believe that I would use both the sources but after doing this research I strongly believe that I would enjoy and rely as much on the wiki article as I do on the encyclopedia.