Marine Transportation
Energy stands apart from other industries not only for its capital intensity, but also for the role of transportation infrastructures in shaping the overall structure and dynamics of the industry. Marine Transportation plays an essential role in the Center's perspective on globalization and on the increasingly important interface between the energy and environmental agenda. CEMTPP takes an integrated view of transport by sea or pipelines (Global Energy Governance) in the energy industry value chain.
The CEMTPP 'Marine Transportation 2030' research program brings together eminent scholars and practitioners from North America and Europe around an exploration of several contrasted plausible and challenging futures for the industry. The first months of work led to a '6 + 1' program structure in which six 'drivers of change' were explored and brought together through one scenarios development exercise. Highlighting the growing interconnection between the 'on shore' and 'on sea' policy and strategy agendas, the six drivers of change deal with (1) Ports governance and global inter-modal value chains, (2) technology as a game changer, (3) the evolving environmental policy agenda, (4) the implications of the rapid melting of the Arctic ice cap, (5) international governance, (6) short sea shipping. A set of scenarios have been developed, with an emphasis on the transformation in governance for shipping as a result of heightened concerns for sustainability. The reactive or proactive nature of technology development is also a key consideration. The resulting volume is currently in the final drafting stage. The scenario framework is also applied in a project in development with the IUCN Center for Environmental Law on Green Shipping in the Black Sea.
The Marine Transportation program is directed by Professor Albert Bressand, Executive Director of CEMTPP, in cooperation with notably Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, and the University of the Aegean in Greece. CEMTPP expresses its gratitude to the Connecticut Maritime Association (CMA) and to Donald Frost, CMA editor and former chairman, for their kind cooperation.
Structure of the 'Marine Transportation 2030' program
'MT 2030' Study Group Members
'MT 2030' Study Group Meetings
