We measure technological progress in oceanic shipping by using a large database of daily log entries from ships of the …

stipulates that the international shipping sector should assess the impacts on states prior to adoption of the mitigation …

We measure technological progress in oceanic shipping directly by using a large database of daily log entries from … allowed a greater area of sail to be set safely in a given wind. By contrast, looking at every voyage between the Netherlands …

Shipping was central to the rise of the Atlantic economies, but an extremely hazardous activity: in the 1780s, roughly … shipping technology was stagnant before iron steamships, in this paper we demonstrate that between the 1780s and 1820s, a … safety revolution occurred that saw shipping losses and insurance rates on oceanic routes almost halved thanks to steady …

responses that underpin them. Here, we combine theory and a unique geospatial dataset combining more than 25 million shipping … behaviour and aggregate transportation cost, as well as its environmental impact, with major implications for the shipping …