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Shipping companies are expected to halve their greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
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.
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Lecturer in energy and transport, UCL
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Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Dean of Science, Southern Cross University
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Southern Cross University
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Senior Research Fellow, Plant Functional Biology & Climate Change, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Offshore Geotechnical Engineering, University of Southampton
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Peter van Duyn is a Friend of The Conversation.
Maritime Logistics Expert, Centre for Supply Chain and Logistics (CSCL), Deakin University
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Professor and Dean of Science, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Aberdeen
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Professor in Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
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Associate Professor in Law, University of Adelaide
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Chair, Department of Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering, Seoul National University
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Managing Director of the Centre for Whale Research (Western Australia), Centre for Whale Research
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Lecturer in Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton
