SUNY Maritime Collegehttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/15302024-03-29T01:43:00Z2024-03-29T01:43:00ZGender Equality is a Maritime Issue: Examining Structural and Social Barriers to Closing the Gender Gap in the Maritime Industry.Ryals, Jessicahttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/86352023-04-29T05:30:28Z2023-04-28T00:00:00ZGender Equality is a Maritime Issue: Examining Structural and Social Barriers to Closing the Gender Gap in the Maritime Industry.
Ryals, Jessica
The past 30 years have seen an increase of women working in the maritime industry. However, the number of women in the global seafaring workforce remains low: only 2%. This paper seeks to evaluate the cultural, social, and institutional barriers to gender equality in the maritime industry, specifically those barriers which cause women to leave the maritime profession, examining the career limitations, harassment, and professional devaluation faced by women in the maritime industry. This paper bridges the gap in literature related to women in maritime by presenting the personal perceptions and experiences of what it is like to be a gender minority (female) in the maritime industry through personal interviews with 24 women in the maritime industry. These interviews offer in-depth insights to women’s personal experiences to understand what it is like to be a woman in a male dominated industry. This research finds that the barriers to equality in maritime are both structural and social. There are barriers to women entering the maritime workforce in gender bias in the education system, social acceptance of women in seafaring roles, and maritime hiring practices. Barriers to retention of women in maritime are discrimination, harassment, physical facilities on ships, and the roles of women in society and their families. Taking steps to remove the structural barriers women face in choosing and maintaining a seafaring career would have cascading impacts on attracting women to maritime and retaining them through their careers, which in turn would have cascading impacts on the cultural barriers.
2023-04-28T00:00:00ZDecarbonization Of ShippingKyteas, Demetrioshttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/79482022-12-29T05:14:22Z2022-12-16T00:00:00ZDecarbonization Of Shipping
Kyteas, Demetrios
The main goal of this Thesis is to analyze the modern and critical issue of shipping decarbonization providing an analytic approach on crucial questions which affect the global shipping nowadays. According to recent studies, the maritime industry is accountable for more than 85% of the world’s trade. At the same time, it consumes 2% of the world’s energy demand, adding 3% to the overall Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. Based on these numbers, it can be said that the industry is one of the most energy advanced and efficient industries, but in parallel particularly harmful for the environment. It has been legislated by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) that, until 2050 the air emissions of the industry must have been reduced by 50% compared to 2008. Since early 2020, the so-called Sulphur cap has been activated, which dictates that sulphur-based emissions should be reduced to 0.5%. In order to achieve the IMO goals various pathways have been developed, of which the most common are speed reduction (slow steaming), scrubbers’ installation and Low Sulphur Fuel Oils (LSFO). Nevertheless, the long-term studies agree that in order to achieve the IMO goals, the industry should move towards new alternative fuels, emitting lower or zero harmful gases. Based on these facts, this Thesis will try to provide a critical overview of the current state of the maritime field and its contribution to the world’s trade and economy, emphasizing on the global shipping. IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee applied the MEPC regulations 75, 76 and 77 on June 2021, building on Energy Efficient Existing Ship Index for existing ships and Energy Efficient Design Index for new buildings (came into force since 2013). In addition, IMO has also adopter the Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) which basically requires specific goals on vessels for reducing their carbon operational emissions (came into force on January 1st 2023). All these measures are indicated in MARPOL Annex VI – Ship Decarbonization as per IMO regulations.
2022-12-16T00:00:00ZFederal Oversight of the America's Marine Highway Program in Response to the Mandates of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007Smith, Brian Dhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/71522022-04-21T19:13:09Z2022-04-01T00:00:00ZFederal Oversight of the America's Marine Highway Program in Response to the Mandates of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007
Smith, Brian D
The America’s Marine Highway Program is an initiative that seeks to ease traffic congestion in landside transportation corridors by moving freight from those highways and railroads to waterborne vessels that travel on nearby rivers and coasts. The program markets itself as an ambitious, national-scale initiative that seeks to drive economic growth and improve quality of life. Its genesis, however, is a three-page section of a 310-page Congressional act that provided for no funding and little oversight. Given this juxtaposition of good intentions and bureaucratic constraints, this paper will examine the historical context for commercial use of the nation’s inland waterway system, analyze the objectives and mechanics of the program in its current state, explore the government’s legal basis for engaging in such activities, and make specific recommendations for the program going forward.
2022-04-01T00:00:00ZShips as Sites of Memory: Collecting Maritime HistoryRapp, Renaehttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/70032022-04-21T14:31:19Z2021-10-07T00:00:00ZShips as Sites of Memory: Collecting Maritime History
Rapp, Renae
A poster presentation from Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) October 7, 2021.
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