Maritime Business Review: Volume 5 Issue 4 , Open Access

A geoeconomic and geopolitical review of Gwadar Port on belt and road initiative

Ali Gholizadeh, Seyedashkan Madani, Saba Saneinia

By combining geopolitical and economic factors and from a geoeconomic perspective, the importance of Gwadar to China and Pakistan is discussed in detail. By applying geoeconomic…

Measuring the effectiveness of English Medium Instruction Shipping courses

Po-Hsing Tseng, Nick Pilcher, Kendall Richards

Shipping courses contain much technical and specialist knowledge and present particular challenges for English medium instruction (EMI). This paper aims to investigate both…

Restructuring seafarers’ welfare under the Maritime Labour Convention: an empirical case study of Greece

Pengfei Zhang, Lijun Zhao, Olga Vata, Sriram Rajagopal

This paper aims to examine three of the major issues relating to the welfare of seafarers, including wages, social security benefits and onboard and ashore welfare facilities and…

Exploring potential cruisers behavior based on a preference model: the Japanese cruise market

Tomoya Kawasaki, Yui-yip Lau

The purpose of this study is to analyze the preferences of potential Japanese cruise ship tourists and identify the factors influencing their participation in cruise ship tourism…