Ship recycling and marine pollution

This paper discusses the historical background, structure and enforcement of the ‘2009 Hong Kong International Convention on the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships.’ the 2009 Hong Kong Convention establishes control and enforcement instruments related to ship recycling, determining the control rights of Port States and the obligations of Flag States, Parties and recycling facilities under its jurisdiction. The Convention also controls the communication and exchange of information procedures, establishes a reporting system to be used upon the completion of recycling, and outlines an auditing system for detecting violations. The Convention, however, also contains some deficiencies. This paper concludes these deficiencies will eventually influence the final acceptance of this Convention by the international community.     

广州是华南海上丝绸之路最早的始发港(Ⅰ)

概述了中国在史前已发明了养蚕与纺织丝绸,用作宗教祭祀器物,周秦用于服饰和书写纸,并流传海外.丝绸之路就是古代中国向国外输出丝绸等并从外国输入货物所经之路,有海陆多条.华南海上丝绸之路始发港,据<汉书>记载111BC有日南港、徐闻港和合浦港.据现代学者研究,秦汉时(200BC前)有番禺港(今广州);南宋和元代(12～14世纪)有刺桐港(今泉州).最早的始发港问题引起争论,焦点集中在徐闻说与番禺说.文中为进一步讨论而整理了持徐闻说和否定番禺说的依据.     

“21世纪海上丝绸之路”背景下中国与东盟水产品贸易的竞争性和互补性研究

中国与东盟互为重要的水产品贸易伙伴。文章在"21世纪海上丝绸之路"建设背景下,通过双边贸易结合度指数、出口产品相似度指数、产业内贸易指数和显示性比较优势指数对中国与东盟水产品贸易的竞争性和互补性进行定量分析。研究表明,中国对东盟的水产品贸易结合度总体稳步增长,而东盟对中国的水产品贸易结合度有下降趋势;中国与东盟水产品在世界市场和日本市场的竞争性较强,在美国市场的竞争性较弱,但总体竞争性有所加强;中国与东盟大多数类别水产品的贸易互补性较强;中国与东盟都没有比较优势极强的水产品,双方有共同的比较优势,但差异也很明显。基于此,提出进一步建立合作机制、充分发挥贸易互补性和提高我国水产品国际竞争力的建议,以期促进中国与东盟水产品贸易的发展。     

Recovering after a maritime terrorist attack: The APEC Trade Recovery Programme

Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon in the United States, many measures have been taken to prevent similar attacks from happening against iconic targets from the land, air, or sea. However, most of the efforts have so far focussed only on the prevention of terrorist attacks. The APEC Trade Recovery Programme (TRP) was developed to increase the speed of post-incident recovery amongst the APEC economies and the US to facilitate a resumption of trade after a terrorist incident.     

Maritime clusters in diverse regional contexts: The case of Canada

This paper presents the main results of a project on Canada's regional clusters in the maritime industry. The objectives of this paper are twofold: firstly, the driving forces and the development processes of the different maritime clusters in Canada are described. Secondly, the role of cluster policy in promoting maritime competitiveness in Canada and the key institutional and geographic barriers that affect their growth and development are discussed. The empirical work consists of analyses and assessment of three clusters in different provinces in Canada: Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, and British Columbia.     

Geopolitical factors of maritime policies and marine spatial planning: State,regions, and geographical planning scope

This article sets out to explore the extent to which the maritime policies that have been formulated in recent years are public policies on a par with other State-level policies, or whether the geographical domain where they are applied makes them exceptional. Maritime policy and territorial structure are very closely related, and it can be seen that maritime policies are beginning to shift towards the domain of State internal affairs, necessitating the rethinking of the way powers are distributed between territorial bodies that have the legal power to be involved in the formulation of these policies and some instruments, such as marine spatial planning.     

海上丝绸之路海啸灾害危险分析

海上丝绸之路不仅是商业和贸易的通道, 也是东西方文化友谊的道路。2004年印度洋海啸对丝路沿线的多个沿海国家造成了重大破坏。因此需要对海啸发生规律和危害进行分析, 以确保海上丝绸之路上经济和文化交流的安全。为探索和识别海上丝绸之路上的海啸灾害, 本文给出了历史海啸事件的特征和规律。从震源震级、震源深度和水深等震源参数中发现了一些历史海啸数据背后的有用信息。本文还探讨了不同震级引起海啸的概率问题。分析结果表明：海上丝绸之路上的海啸主要发生在8个主要构造断层, 每个断层都有不同的海啸发生规律。在统计分析的基础上, 本文采用数值模型模拟了海上丝绸之路沿岸的潜在海啸,计算结果展示了海上丝绸之路沿岸的潜在海啸灾害程度。本文的研究成果有助于海啸灾害预警, 能够为保证海上丝绸之路贸易交流的安全提供科学参考。     

基于海洋命运共同体理念的粤港澳大湾区海洋协同发展策略研究

海洋命运共同体理念与粤港澳大湾区海洋协同发展共同蕴含着“各美其美,美人之美,美美与共,天下大同”的理念。文章在探讨海洋命运共同体理念与粤港澳大湾区海洋协同发展的内在联系的基础上,结合粤港澳大湾区协同发展的现状和特点,提出基于海洋命运共同体理念的粤港澳大湾区海洋协同发展的7项策略,包括：建立海洋合作协调机制;加强涉海产业合作统筹谋划;以绿色发展理念优化海洋发展环境;以人才为牵引开展多层次合作交流;建立多方联动的应急保障服务平台;讲好粤港澳大湾区海洋协同发展故事;强化跟踪分析和督促检查。     

Hydrothermal dolomitization of the carbonate Jurassic succession in the Provençal and Subbriançonnais Domains (Maritime Alps,North-Western Italy)

The present article illustrates a straightforward case of hydrothermal dolomitization, affecting Jurassic platform limestones of the Provençal and Subbriançonnais Domains (Maritime Alps, North-Western Italy). Dolomitized bodies are randomly distributed within the host limestone, and are commonly associated with dolomite vein networks and tabular bodies of dolomite-cemented breccias discordant with respect to bedding. Main dolomite types are a finely to medium-crystalline replacive dolomite and a coarsely-crystalline saddle dolomite occurring both as replacive and as cement. Stratigraphic constraints indicate that dolomitization occurred during the Cretaceous, in a shallow burial context, and was due to the circulation of hot fluids (temperature about 200 °C, as indicated by fluid inclusion microthermometry) through faults and related fracture networks. Hydrothermal dolomitization therefore indirectly documents a Cretaceous fault activity in the Maritime Alps segment of the European Tethyan passive margin.     

Spatial pattern of location advantages of ports along the Maritime Silk Road

Location advantages of ports refer to the current developments of ports based on their conditions,such as geographic location,traffic accessibility and hinterland economy,etc.,and the spatial pattern of ports'location advantages reflects the spatial distributions,the regularities and the correlations among their conditions for development.A good under-standing of the spatial patterns of ports'location advantages can help to better identify the relative advantages of ports,position ports'functions and make strategic plans for develop-ment.This paper selected 1259 ports from 63 countries along the Maritime Silk Road as re-search objects and builds an accessing model to analyze their location advantages on the bases of six factors:the influence of strategic shipping pivot,the competitiveness of port lo-cation potential,port network status,the influence of city,the influence of traffic trunk,and road network density in hinterland.The study has the following three findings.Firstly,the location advantages of ports show a"high-low-high"distribution pattern from the west to the east,displaying an obvious"core-periphery"regionalized distribution.Secondly,most ports have high location advantages,mainly located in Strait of Malacca,the United Arab Emirates,northern Mediterranean coastal region and China-Japan region,the top 10 ports are mainly located in Singapore,China,Malaysia and Japan,indicating that the shipping industry in Asia-Pacific region has stepped to the far front of the global competition;slow economic growths,wars,far away from the Belt and Road countries or bad climate have low location advantages,mainly located in African coastal areas,Oceania,Northeast Europe and Russia.Thirdly,compared with the landward location advantages,the seaward location advantages have a higher influence,and different indicators of location advantages have different influ-ences on the evaluation results,the competitiveness of port location potential being the core indicator.