Putting trade before the 'green transition' not the answer to climate crisis

© Votchitsev Viacheslav

Crises, challenges and competitiveness, according to the strapline for the Cyprus Maritime Conference, are the three Cs shaping the development of shipping and logistics.

But chaos, confusion and collaboration, in a world struggling with transition, would also work.

Trade is governed by the economic structures of the neo-liberal west, which dominate (chaos) the regulatory framework (confusion), and the technological constraints which require a level of collaboration between competing entities rarely seen – but these are beginning to show signs of bearing fruit.

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