Publications

Sustainability in the Maritime Domain

This volume explores options for a sustainable maritime domain, including maritime transportation, such as, Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP), maritime education and training, maritime traffic and advisory systems, maritime security.

The World of the Seafarer

As part of the the WMU Studies in Maritime Affairs book series, “The World of the Seafarer: Qualitative Accounts of Working in the Global Shipping Industry” (2021) partially addresses the need for a broader understanding of this sector and provides a detailed account of the industry as a complex jigsaw of globally dispersed elements.

Frontiers in International Environmental Law: Oceans and Climate Challenges - Essays in Honour of David Freestone

Frontiers in International Environmental Law: Oceans and Climate Challenges - Essays in Honour of David Freestone is an open access publication that explores how law and legal scholarship has responded to some of the most important oceans and climate governance challenges of our time.

Seafarers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, Report

Maritime Transportation and Ocean Policies

“Maritime Transportation and Ocean Policies” is a collection of essays and presentations from the WMU Second Regional Conference for the Americas that took place in Mexico in the fall of 2019.

A culture of adjustment, evaluating the implementation of the current maritime regulatory framework on rest and work hours

Underreporting of work hours or adjustment of work/rest hour records has been suggested by previous research to be a common practice in the shipping sector. With this starting point, the World Maritime University has conducted exploratory research into the implementation of the current regulatory and administrative framework on work and rest hours.

MarTID 2020 Report

The 2020 Training Practices Report presenting the results from the third MarTID survey.

BBNJ Workshop and the UNHQ Side Events Report

The introduction to the report highlights the importance of gender specific provisions in the BBNJ Agreement that will facilitate the empowerment of women scientists as one of the objectives of the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. The report also includes information about the side event entitled ‘Capacity-Building, Gender Empowerment and the BBNJ Agreement’ that took place on 30 August 2019 at the UN headquarters.

Maritime Law in Motion

This book provides valuable insights into various contemporary issues in public and private maritime law, including interdisciplinary aspects. The public law topics addressed include public international law and law of the sea, while a variety of private law topics are explored, e.g. commercial maritime law, conflict of laws, and new developments in the application of advanced technologies to maritime law issues.

WMU Empowering Women in the Maritime Community - Conference Report

On 24 September 2019, the World Maritime University released the Conference Report for the WMU Third International Women’s Conference on Empowering Women in the Maritime Community that was held in April of the same year.