Recent Advances in Green Maritime Transport and Resilient Maritime Supply Chain

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Dear Colleagues,

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic’s and its various effects onset and effects slowed down global economic growth; however, they also gave international trade a significant chance to progress its digital transformation and boost e-commerce sales. Container shipping costs thus reached five times their pre-pandemic levels in 2021, hitting a record peak in early 2022 and dramatically boosting consumer prices. Logistic supply bottlenecks and a spike in demand for consumer products and e-commerce also contributed to this increase in their use. Due to the ongoing energy crisis, prices have decreased since mid-2022, although they remain high for oil and natural gas tanker cargo. As mentioned in a recent report by a UN agency on maritime transport, “Ships carry over 80 percent of the goods traded globally, with the percentage even higher for most developing countries.” Additionally, as UNCTAD Secretary-General Rebeca Grynspan has elaborated, “we need to learn from the current supply chain crisis and prepare better for future challenges and transitions. This includes enhancing intermodal infrastructure, fleet renewal, and improving port performance and trade facilitation,” meaning green maritime transport and a resilient maritime supply chains are certainly of the essence. As such, we have established a Topic entitled ‘Recent Advances in Green Maritime Transport and Resilient Maritime Supply Chain’ in order discover more possibilities raised by the green maritime transport and resilient maritime supply chains. We are seeking to invite papers focusing on the following topics related to green maritime transport and resilient maritime supply chain, including:

• Green maritime transport;
• Resilient maritime supply chain;
• Resilience for ports and cargo flows;
• Container supply chain resilience;
• Shipping industry strategy, operations, and management;
• Planning, strategy, operations, and management in container ports;
• Sea transport policy and regulation;
• Safety and security in maritime;
• Human capital, education, and training in maritime transport;
• Sustainability, environment, green and social responsibility of the shipping industry;
• Intermodal transport and connectivity;
• Marine ecosystem, marine conservation and fisheries, and marine resource;
• Maritime law and insurance;
• Shipping finance and investment;
• Sea logistics and supply chain management;
• Artificial intelligence, blockchain, and automatic identification system (AIS) applications in shipping industry.

Dr. Yui-yip Lau
Dr. Junayed Pasha
Dr. Maxim A. Dulebenets
Topic Editors

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Participating Journals

Journal Name	Impact Factor	CiteScore	Launched Year	First Decision (median)	APC
Economies economies	2.6	3.2	2013	21.4 Days	CHF 1800
Future Transportation futuretransp	-	-	2021	28.2 Days	CHF 1000
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering jmse	2.9	3.7	2013	15.4 Days	CHF 2600
Sustainability sustainability	3.9	5.8	2009	18.8 Days	CHF 2400

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How Was the Staple Food Supply Chain in Indonesia Affected by COVID-19?

by Eka Purna Yudha and Julian Roche

Economies 2023, 11(12), 292; https://doi.org/10.3390/economies11120292 - 01 Dec 2023

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, there were significant restrictions on the transportation of food products in Indonesia. The research objective of this study was to investigate the extent to which these restrictions impacted changes in marketing margins at the provincial level in Indonesia. The [...] Read more.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, there were significant restrictions on the transportation of food products in Indonesia. The research objective of this study was to investigate the extent to which these restrictions impacted changes in marketing margins at the provincial level in Indonesia. The approach taken was through the examination of trade and freight margin statistical data before the pandemic (2019) and after the pandemic (2020) across a number of different commodity markets: rice, shallots, red chilli pepper, beef, chicken meat and eggs, sugar, and cooking oil. The evidence indicates that the pandemic brought a rapid rise in Indonesian domestic prices as a result of purchasing panic at its start. But after the imposition of transportation restrictions, there were wide variations: some durable food options experienced increased marketing margins, whereas non-durables tended to experience decreased marketing margins in some regions, as fresh products such as red chillies and shallots were discarded as a result of declining consumer purchasing power. The conclusion for policymakers is that any future restrictions should take into account this likely difference in response, in order to minimise economic disruption by calibrating support along the supply chain. Full article

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Ship Behavior Pattern Analysis Based on Graph Theory: A Case Study in Tianjin Port

by Hongchu Yu, Xinyu Bai and Jingxian Liu

J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2023, 11(12), 2227; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse11122227 - 24 Nov 2023

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With the rapid development of the global economy and trade, the number of ships serving ports in China is increasing continuously. Port traffic is becoming busier, and ship behavior is more complex and changeable. The analysis of ship behavior patterns in port waters [...] Read more.

With the rapid development of the global economy and trade, the number of ships serving ports in China is increasing continuously. Port traffic is becoming busier, and ship behavior is more complex and changeable. The analysis of ship behavior patterns in port waters has become an urgent problem to improve the efficiency and safety of port areas. In this paper, through the full integration of ship trajectory and port geographic information, the behavior chain of a single ship across the whole process of entering and exiting the port is identified. The traffic complexities and dynamics can be further analyzed by grouping the movement patterns of large ships. Based on graph theory, the port areas can be described as a transportation network in which functional areas are nodes and fairways between different areas are edges. The traffic can be analyzed through the network structure characteristics, such as node degree, node weight, and edge weight, and by their similarities and differences. This methodology provides a quantitative analysis for exploring the behavior patterns of large ships as well as the various traffic complexities. A case study in Tianjin Port has been conducted to verify the proposed model. The results show that it can accurately analyze a ship behavior’s regularity, occasion, and correlation. It provides a theoretical reference for the port to schedule and formulate emergency plans. Full article

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