Papers from a September 2000 conference examine the management, operation, design, and building of maritime works and ports. Themes include private and public ports, contributions from public and private sources, ship and port operators, multimode transportation in ports, environmental aspects, financial and legal aspects, multiuse of ports, tourism, information systems for ports and shipping, systems of loading and unloading, emerging technologies in shipping and ports, ergonomics in shipping, marine engineering works, maintenance problems, and construction of ports. Specific subjects include economic evaluation of port deepening projects, the influence of wake wash in ports operation, analysis of pollution incidents at sea, Turkish yacht tourism, and estimation of chloride ingress into concrete in a marine environment. Brebbia is affiliated with Wessex Institute of Technology, UK; Olivella, with Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain. This work lacks a subject index. Distributed in North America by Computational Mechanics, Inc. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)