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Review of MaRitiMe tRanspoRt 2011

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U n i t e d n at i o n s C o n f e r e n C e o n t r a d e a n d d e v e l o p m e n t

Review

of MaRitiMe
tRanspoRt

2011

U N I T E D N AT I O N S C O N F E R E N C E O N T R A D E A N D D E V E L O P M E N T

REVIEW

OF MARITIME
TRANSPORT

2011

REPORT BY
THE UNCTAD SECRETARIAT

New York and Geneva, 2011

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NOTE
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the aim of fostering the transparency of maritime markets and analysing relevant developments. Any factual or
editorial corrections that may prove necessary, based on comments made by Governments, will be reflected in
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UNCTAD/RMT/2011
UNITED NATIONS PUBLICATION

Sales No. E.11.II.D.4

ISBN 978-92-1-112841-3

ISSN 0566-7682

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Review of Maritime Transport 2011 was prepared by the Trade Logistics Branch of the Division on Technology
and Logistics, UNCTAD, under the coordination of Jan Hoffmann,the supervision of José María Rubiato, and the
overall guidance of Anne Miroux. The authors were Regina Asariotis, Hassiba Benamara, Hannes Finkenbrink,
Jan Hoffmann, Jennifer Lavelle, Maria Misovicova, Vincent Valentine and Frida Youssef.

Administrative support and the desktop publishing were undertaken by Florence Hudry. Additional desktop
publishing was carried out by Wendy Juan. Graphicsupport was provided by Philippe Terrigeol, and the
publication was edited by Daniel Sanderson, Mike Gibson and Lucy Délèze-Black.

This publication was externally reviewed by the following persons:

Chapter 1:

Socrates Leptos-Bourgi, Michael Tamvakis, Liliana Annovazzi-Jakab, Melissa Dawn Newhook.

Chapter 2:

Daniel S.H. Moon, Thomas Pawlik, Tengfei Wang.

Chapter 3:

Herman deMeester, Aleksandra Pieczek.

Chapter 4:

Sharmila Chavaly, Patrick Donner, Ki-Soon Hwang, Peter Marlow, Arvind Mayaram.

Chapter 5:

Mahin Faghfouri, Mia Mikic, André Stochniol.

Chapter 6:

Tilmann Boehme, Kevin Cullinane, Peter Faust, Maximilian Mrotzek, Hong-Oanh (Owen)
Nguyen.

Annexes:

Desislava Oblakova.

In addition, the publication was internally reviewed in full byVladislav Chouvalov.

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