Understanding the evolution of these changes can help maritime communities to know what has been done in the past, how maritime safety can be improved in the future, and how to reduce or eliminate the risks to ships, the lives aboard them, the cargo they carry, and the marine environment.
Current levels of sulphur in maritime fuels can be as high as 3.5%.
Western diplomats have said that maritime law can be as murky as the seas.
The onset of a fever in the region around maritime issues can be traced to China's revival of an artefact of its early-20th-century history, known as the Nine-Dash Line.
Forbert looks closely at several tanker disasters, laying the blame at cost-cutting, bad practice, and the registering of ships in countries whose maritime inspectors can be convinced to look away from evidence of unseaworthiness.
The reason for this swirl of maritime outlawry can be found on the nearest shore, in Somalia.Until the world's most comprehensively failed state acquires the barest modicum of order and government, the seas beside it will be a paradise for pirates and a menace to passengers, crew and cargo, even for ships sailing 300 miles offshore.
There's no avoiding the touristy kitsch, but authentic maritime history can be found in the well-maintained sloop-of-war Constellation (410-539-1797, www.consthelaston.org), the last all-sail ship built by the Navy and a veteran of the Civil War.
Results indicate that marine sediment carbon stocks in maritime nations can be similar in magnitude to those of soils.
"We believe the Norwegian maritime industry can be an important green growth industry".
The HM2 maritime version can be armed with air-to-surface missiles, torpedoes, depth charges, cannons and heavy machine guns.
