Southeast Asia, located on the Europe-Far East trade route, is one of the busiest shipping region of the world and a major source of seafarers for the international shipping industry. In the context of the growing maritime aspirations of the region and the depressed state of world shipping, a...

This occasional paper focuses on international shipping in Southeast Asia, reviewing fleet ownership and control in ASEAN and examining the extent of public and private sector ownership in the ASEAN fleets.