When Professor Soares asked me to highlight the state-of-the-art in maritime economics and logistics research, as a keynote speech for MARTECH 2022, I immediately said ‘yes’. On second thought, however, I considered something like this would be a bit too ambitious if not pretentious. Thus,...

We analyze an integrated inventory supply chain and seek the optimal production lot, optimal production rate, and optimal (integer) number of shipments per production lot. An increasing need for higher operational efficiency, as well as growing competition among multiple products for a limited...

In policy-making, the design of a policy is considered to be one of the most significant steps. A well designed policy will be able to solve sectoral problems across stakeholders as well as support the competitive development of the entire economy. Enterprises of the maritime sector have been...

Digital transformation and automation in the shipping industry is resulting disruptive changes to ship design, operations, and manning that aim to enhance safety, efficiency, and the environmental sustainability of maritime logistics. While there is growing research interest in these areas,...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a fairly new philosophy to the shipping industry. The shipping industry, by its very nature, is the most globalised and highly regulated industry of all. Compared to land-based industries, the shipping industry has a long list of stakeholders in its...

1. Introduction -- 2. Amoco Cadiz and the early days of EC maritime regulation 37 -- 3. Braer and breakthrough for EU maritime engagement and regulation -- 4. Erika, a watershed in international maritime governance 95 -- 5. Prestige and near breakdown of the safety regime -- 6. From EU-IMO...