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Maritime Economics in the Post-Covid-19 Pandemic

This Thematic Collection, “Maritime Economics in the Post-Covid-19 Pandemic”, addresses important areas influencing industry business performance. The editorial considers the events that occurred previously and after the Conference, a year marked by the COVID-19 Pandemic, high freight container shipping rates, port congestion and the Russian-Ukranian crisis, which had an extraordinary impact on shipping. Pruyn and Willeijns deal with cold ironing. Martius et al. address repositioning empty containers from surplus to deficit regions. Sackey et al. analyse maritime insecurity’s impact on seafarers’ and marine professionals’ lives, the environment and property. Mthembu and Chasomeris investigate port community systems in South Africa. Plomaritou and Jeropoulos examine the role of digitalisation’s the chartering business. Andersen et al. bring port governance and stakeholder theory together to understand stakeholder relations changes. Finally, Dominguez‑Péry et al. investigated risk indicators in maritime accidents to propose the Accident Maritime Ecosystem framework.

Guest editors: 
Ana Cristina Paixão Casaca, World of Shipping Portugal, Portugal and CIMOSM-Centro de Investigação em Modelação e Optimização de Sistemas Multifuncionais, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal.

Maria Amélia Ramos Loja, CIMOSM-Centro de Investigação em Modelação e Optimização de Sistemas Multifuncionais, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal and IDMEC-Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal.


  1. This paper investigated the risk indicators in maritime accidents and how they are considered within the reporting of maritime accidents, drawing on ten years of International Maritime Organisation (IMO) (2011...

    Authors: Carine Dominguez-Péry, Rana Tassabehji, Franck Corset and Zainab Chreim
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2023 8:11
  2. This paper bridges port governance and stakeholder theory to contribute to new understandings of changed stakeholder relations due to the building of new container terminals. The case of the newly inaugurated ...

    Authors: Torben Andersen, Jonas Aryee, George Acheampong and Annette Skovsted Hansen
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2023 8:10
  3. Previous research offering a comprehensive overview of digitalisation in maritime transport is limited. In this paper, the authors use several cases to examine digitalisation’s role in the chartering business....

    Authors: Evi Plomaritou and Sotiris Jeropoulos
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2022 7:28
  4. In this paper, three steps are made. First, an effort is made to show a consequential effect of maritime insecurity on seafarers and marine professionals; they are at risk of a complicated string of processes ...

    Authors: Anthony Djaba Sackey, Bernard Lomotey, Abigail Dede Sackey, Raphael Ofosu-Dua Lee, Abraham Akwetey Teye, Richmond Kennedy Quarcoo and John Bansah
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2022 7:20
  5. Due to imbalances in the global transport of containerised goods, liner shipping companies go to great lengths to match the regional supply and demand for empty containers by transporting equipment from surplu...

    Authors: Christoph Martius, Lutz Kretschmann, Miriam Zacharias, Carlos Jahn and Ole John
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2022 7:19