The Journal of Shipping and Trade (JST) is an open access, multi-disciplinary publication that focuses both on business & management, as well as transportation-related fields. It aims to promote practices in shipping and to improve the management of global trade activities. It aims to advance knowledge on current and emerging issues in shipping and trade.

Towards achieving these objectives, JST provides a vehicle to facilitate professionals, academics, researchers, and policy makers in the field to disseminate information and to learn from one another’s work. As a scholarly journal emphasizing shipping and trade related studies and research, JST plays a key role in establishing communication links among global shipping and trade researchers.

JST also aims to contribute to current and emerging issues in shipping and trade as raised by global and regional public bodies and major market players. JST considers papers covering shipping economics, trade and economic development, transportation management, global port management, regional studies, environmental management in shipping and trade, business model development, as well as other related topics.

It is timely and important to address both theoretical and practical issues associated with managing shipping activities to facilitate and support international trade in today’s dynamic and complex business world. The key focuses of JST include, but are not limited to, trade facilitation, tramp shipping to transport bulk commodities, liner shipping operations, inter-modal transport operations, container transport management, terminal management, green shipping management practices, technology adoption for shipping management, and regional planning and policy to promote trade and shipping.

The Journal of Shipping and Trade (JST) is timely and important to address both theoretical and practical issues associated with managing shipping activities to facilitate and support international trade in today’s dynamic and complex business world.

The Journal in Shipping and Trade (JST)

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