2014-Review_of_Maritime_TransportUNCTAD announced the publication of the 2014 of the Review of Maritime Transport.

Published annually since 1968, the Review of Maritime Transport is UNCTAD’s oldest flagship publication and provides coverage of key developments affecting international seaborne trade, ports, shipping, the world fleet, freight markets, and transport-related regulatory and legal frameworks.

Chapter 4 is devoted in seaports. With world container port throughput increasing by an estimated 5.6 per cent to 651.1 million TEUs in 2013, the share of port throughput for developing countries increased by an estimated 7.2 per cent. Asian ports continue to dominate the league table for port throughput and for terminal efficiency.

A statistical Annex of Container port traffic, by country is also available on-line:

A special chapter-Chapter 6: Small islands face special challenges– of this year’s Review of Maritime Transport focuses on challenges faced by the world’s Small Island Developing States (SIDS), in line with the United Nations declaration of 2014 as the “Year of SIDS”. The maritime transport services connecting SIDS to global trade networks face severe structural, operational and development obstacles. Remoteness from main global trade routes constitutes a major disadvantage in terms of cost and time, but also quality and frequency, of services that access international markets.

The other chapters of the Review of Maritime Transport 2014 are:

Chapter 1: Seaborne Trade. Reflecting a stumbling growth in the world economy, the growth in world seaborne shipments decelerated over the previous year and averaged just 3.8 per cent in 2013. In line with this growth the volume of international seaborne trade totaled nearly 9.6 billion tons.

Chapter 2: The world fleet. The 2014 issue of the Review of Maritime Transport introduces a novel analysis regarding the ownership of the fleet which draws a distinction between the concept of the “nationality of ultimate owner” and the “beneficial ownership location”.

Chapter 3: Freight rates. 2013 was marked by another gloomy and volatile maritime freight rates market: all shipping segments suffered substantially. The general causes of freight rates’ low performance were mainly attributable to the poor world economic development, weak or hesitant demand and persistent supply overcapacity.

Chapter 5: The legal and regulatory developments. Progress continued to be made with respect to the negotiation and adoption by IMO, of regulations relating to environmental and related issues, mainly aiming at increasing energy efficiency and reducing GHG emissions from international shipping, as well as reducing emissions of other toxic substances from burning fuel oil. In addition, implementation of the existing framework and programmes in the field of maritime and supply-chain security, as well as international measures to combat maritime piracy, continued.

Statistical Annexes are published on-line:
• Container port traffic, by country: http://stats.unctad.org/teu
• World Seaborne Trade: http://stats.unctad.org/seabornetrade
• National fleets, by vessel type and country of registration: http://stats.unctad.org/fleet
• Fleet ownership, by country of ownership and main flags of registration: http://stats.unctad.org/fleetownership
• UNCTAD’s Liner Shipping Connectivity Index (LSCI): http://stats.unctad.org/lsci
• National Trade Facilitation Committees repository: http://unctad.org/TFC

Aimilia A. Papachristou is Business Consultant on cruise-rail integration in Travel Bureau of the Passenger Services Department of TRAINOSE S.A. A maritime economist, holding a BSc from the Department of Shipping Trade and Transport, School of Business, University of the Aegean, Greece (2002), and a MSc in Shipping Trade & Transport, School of Business, University of the Aegean, Greece (2004). Since 2013, Aimilia was senior project manager at MedCruise, the association of over 100 cruise ports from 20 countries in the Mediterranean and its adjoining seas. She has contributed in re-profiling the Association. The period January-March 2018 she acted as interim Secretary General of the Association, while she will conclude serving the Association at the end of May 2018, due to the relocation of the headquarters to Tenerife, Spain. Before that post Aimilia had been advisor to the Secretary General of Ports and Port Policy, at the Ministry of Development Competitiveness and Shipping of the Hellenic Republic (2011-2012). Under her capacity as Research Fellow at the Business School of the University of the Aegean (since 2009) Aimilia has been also involved - either as research or as administrator - in several port and maritime related research projects funded by the European Union, shipping companies and ports. Her professional experience also includes experience as Lecturer at the Business Administration Department of the Technological Educational Institute (ATEI) of Ionian Islands, Greece. At ATEI, Aimilia was teaching courses in “Marketing Management”, “Human Resource Management”, “Advertisement”, “Market Research” and “International Economic Relations” (2006-2009). A scholar of the Hellenic State Scholarship Foundation (IKY), Aimilia currently works on a PhD thesis examining cruise port governance at the Department of Shipping, Trade and Transport (STT) of the School of Business, University of the Aegean. Greece. Aimilia was elected member of the Council of the Hellenic Association of Maritime Economist (2010-2015). She is a founding member of PortEconomics.eu, advancing since 2008 the web initiative advancing the dissemination of port research and studies and a scientific partner of the consulting company Ports & Shipping Advisory since its establishment in 2016.

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