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Sea Transportation

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Sea transportation refers to the movement of goods and passengers via maritime routes using various types of vessels, including cargo ships, tankers, and ferries. It encompasses the logistics, infrastructure, and regulatory frameworks that facilitate maritime trade and travel, playing a crucial role in global commerce and economic development.
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Sea transportation refers to the movement of goods and passengers via maritime routes using various types of vessels, including cargo ships, tankers, and ferries. It encompasses the logistics, infrastructure, and regulatory frameworks that facilitate maritime trade and travel, playing a crucial role in global commerce and economic development.

Key research themes

1. How can multimodal and intermodal transport integration optimize coastal and sea transportation efficiency and sustainability?

This research theme investigates the integration of sea transport with other transport modes such as road, rail, and inland waterways to form efficient multimodal or intermodal transport chains. Understanding the optimal configuration of these chains addresses critical challenges in energy consumption reduction, modal shifts, infrastructural improvements, and policy formulation. This optimization is vital for enhancing the commercial viability of coastal shipping and reducing environmental impacts, particularly carbon emissions. The theme emphasizes the necessity for coordinated physical infrastructure, regulatory frameworks, and stakeholder collaboration to support sustainable sea transportation systems.

Key finding: By developing a scientific assessment method, this study demonstrates that optimizing the transport chain involving sea ports, road, rail, and inland waterways significantly reduces energy consumption. The paper highlights... Read more
Key finding: This study presents a novel approach for optimizing last-mile freight delivery in small island contexts by integrating maritime shipping with parcel locker systems. Using a constrained combinatorial problem solved via a... Read more

2. What are the infrastructural, technological, and safety-related challenges and opportunities shaping the modernization and competitiveness of sea transportation ports and fleets?

This area addresses the necessity for continuous adaptation and improvement of port infrastructure and marine transport fleets to meet the demands of growing ship sizes, evolving trade volumes, and heightened safety and environmental standards. It combines analysis of port competitiveness, technological innovations in fleet design, infrastructure upgrades, and regulatory compliance to ensure that maritime transport remains efficient, reliable, and secure. These advancements are critical for accommodating larger vessels, facilitating smoother logistics, and responding to global challenges such as climate change and decarbonization.

Key finding: Focusing on the port of Szczecin, this research evidences that enhancing port infrastructure, particularly deepening the fairway to accommodate larger vessels, significantly influences shippers' choices to utilize or increase... Read more
Key finding: By spatially analyzing Greek passenger maritime transport demand before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper uncovers how infrastructure and service provision maintained essential accessibility for insular regions... Read more
Key finding: The paper elucidates principles for optimizing specialized marine transport fleets focusing on matching fleet capacity to cargo flow, technical and economic efficiency, and environmental sustainability. It argues that... Read more
Key finding: This historical analysis reveals how containerization revolutionized ocean shipping by drastically reducing cargo handling times and costs, reshaping ship design, port infrastructure, labor practices, and global trade flows.... Read more
Key finding: By reviewing and proposing RFID-based tracking systems for radioactive materials during sea transportation, this study demonstrates how technology integration enhances safety monitoring, security, and regulatory compliance.... Read more

3. How do cultural, historical, and socio-economic factors influence the perceptions, narratives, and governance of sea transportation and maritime labor?

This theme delves into the human, cultural, and socio-political dimensions of sea transportation, including literary representations of ocean liners, historical continuities in maritime civilizations, challenges facing seafarers especially in developing or peripheral nations, and passenger experience and service quality in maritime transport. It explores how maritime transport interweaves with cultural identity, labor market dynamics, safety perceptions, and tourism development, highlighting the importance of integrating these perspectives into maritime governance and policy-making.

Key finding: Through literary analysis spanning from late 19th century to interwar periods, this study finds that ocean liners evolved in Canadian literature from functional transport machines to potent cultural symbols embodying themes... Read more
Key finding: This research highlights that South African seafarers face significant employment and training placement challenges due to global competition, the prevalence of open registries, and a shift towards lower-cost labor from other... Read more
Key finding: The survey-based study on passenger experiences at seaports in the Island Garden City of Samal reveals that courteous service, transparent communication, and reliability significantly enhance traveler satisfaction.... Read more
Key finding: By mapping and analyzing 36 historical pier buildings in Istanbul, this study finds that these maritime nodes have sustained their spatial and cultural continuity despite renovations, serving as vital hubs blending... Read more
Key finding: This interdisciplinary historical study hypothesizes cultural continuities between ancient Sumerian civilization and Tamil post-deluge societies, suggesting that maritime-linked migration and shared technological and social... Read more

All papers in Sea Transportation

Maritime chokepoints constitute some of the most strategically significant geographical features in the international system. Despite their limited physical dimensions, these narrow waterways facilitate the movement of a substantial... more
For a political economy of logistical hinterlands: the territorial logistics regimes Starting from a theoretical reflection on analytical frameworks available in geography to analyze the phenomenon of logistics, this article advances the... more
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Lo studio delle reti commerciali storiche rappresenta una convergenza straordinaria tra la storia economica, la teoria dei grafi matematici, l'archeologia quantitativa e la scienza delle reti complesse...
La storia dell'umanità è intessuta di reti commerciali che hanno connesso popoli, culture ed economie attraverso distanze immense, creando sistemi complessi di scambio che hanno plasmato il destino di civiltà intere...
Il sistema di scambio delle quote di emissione dell'Unione Europea (ETS) rappresenta un elemento fondamentale del pacchetto "Fit for 55" dell'Unione Europea, che si prefigge di ridurre le emissioni di gas serra di almeno il 55% entro il... more
Interruzioni del commercio e cambiamenti delle rotte di navigazione. La crisi del Mar Rosso, iniziata a novembre 2023 a causa degli attacchi Houthi alle navi commerciali nello stretto di Bab el-Mandeb, ha avuto impatti economici... more
This paper aims to find out the process of managing export and import documents by PT Adhigana Pratama Mulya Belawan branch, the process starts from before the arrival of the ship to the port of Belawan, the agent has prepared the... more
This paper reconsiders the dynamics of the eighteenth-century Roman art market in its relationship with the Habsburg Empire, challenging the long-standing paradigm formulated by Adolf Michaelis, who described Rome as a mere “quarry” of... more
Colaizzi’s method is generally used among qualitative researches specifically in phenomenological researches. The method is structurally recognized in the body of researches as it provides comprehensive processes that enabled the... more
Book chapter in COVID 19 DISRUPTION AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN SMALL ISLAND ECONOMIES edited by Afifi, Diswandi, Sulhaini, Tri Mulyaningsih, Djoni Hartono, Budy P. Resosudarmo. The socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the... more