Aims & Scope

Aims

Maritime (ISSN 3043-1085) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal which promotes multidisciplinary research that is scientifically robust and methodologically transparent, interconnecting fundamental inquiries with practical applications and problem solving.

Our vision for Maritime is to become the leading international forum for the generation and exchange of knowledge, innovation and interdisciplinary research that will enable the transformation of the maritime sector towards a safer, cleaner, smarter, more resilient and socially responsible future.

Maritime focuses on the thematic areas of maritime transport sectors, including (but not limited to) technology, engineering, logistics, economics and policy. It publishes studies with theoretical, numerical and experimental results (or combinations thereof). The submitted manuscripts should provide sufficient information and details, clearly presenting the methodology and methods, supporting the results’ reproducibility. The findings should be thoughtfully discussed, and the study implications (in academia, industry and society) and contributions should be described persuasively. Long datasets, or other materials (for example, videos, figures and tables), can be submitted as supplementary files.

Scope

The journal covers, but is not limited to, the following research topics:

• Sustainable shipping and maritime decarbonisation;
• Alternative fuels low and zero-carbon fuels;
• Novel maritime technologies and systems;
• Energy efficient design and systems;
• Novel concepts, methods, and methodologies;
• Maritime safety and risk;
• Maritime human factors;
• Maritime regulations, governance and policies;
• Interplay of energy efficiency, safety, environmental footprint, and techno-economic feasibility;
• Maritime digitalisation, artificial intelligence and data analytics;
• Autonomous and remotely operated vessels and systems;
• Marine robotics;
• Ports, logistics, inter-island transport;
• Resilient supply chains;
• Cybersecurity and assurance of maritime cyber-physical systems;
• Circular economy, and blue economy initiatives;
• Marine pollution control;
• Maritime economics and business;
• Maritime security, and geopolitical dynamics;
• Socioeconomic dimensions of maritime technological transition.

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.

Book Reviews

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Maritime will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

Reprints

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