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In three decades Australia’s merchant fleet has declined from about 100 ships to 14. It’s mostly to do with ships changing flags to avoid local laws and crews.
Globalization is making it harder to identify and trace outbreaks of foodborne illness. Technology can help, but consumers may also have to rethink their food choices.
Two labor negotiation experts explain how a 2015 dispute that seemed intractable got resolved, with important lessons for the partial government shutdown.
Carbon emissions from maritime freight are everyone’s problem because of climate change.
Rising e-commerce means more delivery trucks and urban gridlock. Lockers at transit centers, where carriers can leave packages for people who live or work nearby, are a potential solution.
Climate change is shrinking Arctic sea ice and opening the region to ship traffic. Whales, seals and other marine mammals could be at risk unless nations adopt rules to protect them.
New shipping opportunities are opening up in the Arctic as sea ice continues to recede. But travel is still dangerous and the region isn’t equipped to deal with more vessel traffic.
We know how to stop solid minerals converting to a liquid state mid voyage – so why does it still happen?
The complexity of the reforms might jeopardise the necessary cooperation of overseas businesses, and place consumers at risk of paying wrongly charged GST.
Cyber vulnerabilities in shipping show how far the industry has to go. But proper cyber security of ships is more complex than you might initially think.
Shipping is becoming greener, but this brings new safety challenges.
This speed read explores why it’s hard to stop manufacturers in specific countries from dodging trade barriers by pretending that their goods come from somewhere else.
Until now, the international shipping industry has been excluded from the Paris Agreement and the Kyoto Protocol, despite its major contribution to global emissions.
A shipping industry summit is exploring routes to a greener future.
The maritime pollution that drifts to dry land, causes an estimated 400,000 premature deaths and 14 million cases of childhood asthma each year.
The shipping industry can learn from oil spills – if it wants to.
Smuggling, piracy and sanctions-busting are all part of life on the ocean wave.
The 20th century was marked by a painful decline in UK shipbuilding, but it’s time to leave the past behind.
China’s bid for an infrastructure blitz to drive overland trade through to Europe will end up being overshadowed.
Top contributors
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Senior Lecturer in Culture & Climate, The University of Melbourne
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Reader in Energy and Transport, UCL
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Research Associate, Shipping and Climate Change, University of Manchester
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Professor and Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies, UMass Amherst
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Assistant Professor in Logistics and Supply Chain, University of Bradford
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PhD (Maritime Security), University of Greenwich
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Associate Professor of Business, University of Tennessee
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Professor of Practice & Director, Fletcher Maritime Studies Program, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Professor of Climate Science and Energy Policy, University of Manchester
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Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director, Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics Center, University of Washington
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Research Fellow in Ocean Management, Stockholm University
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Professeur émérite de géographie, Université de Montréal
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Maritime Logistics Expert, Centre for Supply Chain and Logistics (CSCL), Deakin University
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Professor of International Relations, University of Copenhagen
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Industrial Researcher, University of Plymouth
