Skilled and experienced crews are essential to the successful operation of today’s technologically advanced vessels. The growing shortage of qualified seafarers of today has a dramatic impact for worldwide maritime transport. In order to prevent the disadvantages of seafarers’ shortage for...

Рассмотрены основы функционирования морского кластера и предложены методические основы оценки эффективности создания и развития морского кластера. Предложен...

The article presents the efficiency of maritime transport corporations. After a short characteristics of maritime transport, research regarding the current situation in the market, based on transport corporations of selected countries has been presented. The year 2009, when the world crisis...

The rise in worldwide goods transport is an important factor in the increase of national GDP’s, but at the same time it poses serious threats in terms of the quality of life, mainly regarding the population in developed countries, who are however the main beneficiaries of the resulting...

Harsh arguments accompanied the development and the history of the Suez canal company either among nationalist Egyptians (just before, during or just after the nationalisation of the canal in 1956) or among some historians dedicated to find out clues of imperialist powers on key tools and moves...

In this paper, we study how maritime ferry industries should be regulated. This is a fundamental issue in so far as maritime transport between islands and mainland is a service of general interest. We argue that the policy design crucially depends on the goals the collectivity pursues (pure...

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world. It showed the possibility of running economic activities remotely, allowing people to learn how to have a more balanced life. As a result, electronic commerce flourished, and it is here to stay. However, only time will tell whether people will shop...

In this paper we analyze the proposal for the creation of a European fund for the compensation of oil pollution damage. We argue that experience from the accident of the Prestige tanker off the Spanish coast in 2002 made it clear that existing international liability and compensation mechanisms...

The liberalisation of maritime transport constitutes a substantial and vital progress not only in the maritime transport market but also in influencing the development of distant island regions. In the European Union (EU), the establishment of the legal framework and policy regarding the...