UNESCAP's 2024-2025 Asia-Pacific Sustainable Maritime Connectivity Report marks the first jointly published annual report dedicated to assessing regional maritime transport connectivity, with a special focus on the Pacific region, where...
Maritime transport and trade face daunting challenges. Ships that once passed through the Red Sea in days now sail for weeks around the Cape of Good Hope. Freight rates are...
Globally there is increased interest in nuclear-powered shipping. Recent reports and papers respond to a strengthening lobby advocating for the commercial deployment of nuclear options for shipping in the context...
AbstractThis paper seeks to better understand the availability of datasets pertinent to the baselining, monitoring and forecasting of economic impacts resulting from implementation of the IMO’s Revised 2023 Strategy targets....
This paper discusses what a true cost benefit analysis for the cruise liner industry would encompass, in response to an economic analysis of cruise tourism in Aotearoa New Zealand released...
A recent study published by the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, of which most 6PAC+ countries are members, on the link between fossil fuel subsidies and obstruction to a maritime...
The European Maritime Transport Environmental Report 2025 (EMTER 2025) was released on 04 February 2025. IWSA has contributed to the report and the IWSA Secretary General was also kindly invited...
Introduction The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is advancing mid-term greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction measures as part of its 2023 Strategy, aiming to decarbonize the global shipping sector. However, for Pacific...
Abstract Europe’s IMO proposed mid-term measures revenue use will not result in a just and equitable 1.5 degree aligned transition, its approach to using revenues to meet the agreed objectives...
Achieving the ambitions laid out in the IMO’s revised strategy on the decarbonisation of international shipping could substantially negatively impact states across the Pacific. To get a better understanding of...
John Fatuimoana Kautoke1, John Taukave1,2, Morgan Wairiu3, Maria Sahib1, Atina Schutz1, Aileen Sefeti1, Peter Nuttall1,4, Alison Newell1 and Pierre-Jean Bordahandy1 1Micronesian Center for Sustainable Transport, Majuro2University of Hawai’i at Manoa3Solomon...
Author: Peter Nuttall The domestic maritime connectivity of the micro-states of the Pacific islands is a unique and largely overlooked dimension of shipping supply chains. Pacific island states have long...
