Maritime Transport

My work for the New Zealand Ministry of Transport sometimes touches on maritime policy issues. This page is devoted to maritime transport.

Ship on the St. Lawrence River at Quebec City (2001)©

Overseas transport departments and agencies

Links to our overseas counterparts:

Relevant New Zealand departments and agencies

• Ministry of Transport
• Maritime New Zealand  
• Statistics New Zealand
• NIWA  

New Zealand ministerial statements and speeches on maritime transport

• Shipping Industry Review - 15 March 2001
• Speech to Maritime Union of New Zealand Triennial Conference - 21 October 2003
• Keynote address of the Ports & Shipping Forum - 28 April 2004
• Speech to Maritime New Zealand conference - 5 September 2006
• Coastal Shipping - Roadways to Waterways - 11 October 2006 Parliamentary questions and answers

New Zealand economic regulation of ports and shipping

Relevant legislation includes the Port Companies Act 1988 and the Maritime Transport Act 1994 (in particular s.198). Free access is available on the web to New Zealand legislation.

Shipping companies serving New Zealand

New Zealand sea ports

International and maritime industry organisation sites

The activities of the following international and maritime industry organisations are of particular relevance:

• IMO - the UN's International Maritime Organization based in London, UK
• ILO - the UN's International Labour Organization based in Geneva, Switzerland
• UNCITRAL  
• World Trade Organization - based in Geneva, Switzerland, where services sector papers on Maritime Transport and Services Auxiliary to All Modes of Transport are available
• UNCTAD - based in Geneva - annually publishes a Review of Maritime Transport  
• APEC - based in Singapore - the APEC Transportation Working Group has its own site
• Secretariat of the Pacific Community based in Noumea - Regional Maritime Programme  
• Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat - based in Suva, Fiji
• Europa - an official European Union site including the DG Energy & Transport with a Maritime Transport page - Maritime Transport Policy (2006)
• European Shortsea Network  
• SUTRANET - Sustainable Transport Research and Development Network in the North Sea Region
• Short Sea Shipping Cooperative - based in Washington DC
• EMSA - the European Maritime Safety Agency based in Lisbon, Portugal
• OECD - the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development based in Paris - Transport page - work on maritime transport has been suspended
• BIMCO - the Baltic and International Maritime Council
• Intertanko - the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners
• Intercargo - the International Association of Dry Cargo Shipowners
• ICS and ISF - the International Chamber of Shipping and International Shipping Federation
• The Baltic Exchange  
• World Shipping Council - based in Washington DC - representing liner shipping
• IAPH - the International Association of Ports and Harbours
• ITF - the International Transport Workers' Federation - Flags of Convenience campaign  
• Australian Shipowners Association  
• Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand  
• The Nautical Institute - New Zealand Branch  

• New Zealand Shipping Federation - Roadways to Waterways draft (September 2006)
• New Zealand Shippers Council  
• NZ Merchant Service Guild  
• Aviation & Marine Engineers Association  
• Maritime Union of New Zealand  
• The Rail & Maritime Transport Union  

International maritime-related information

Academic sites:

• New Zealand Maritime School  

Other industry sites:

• Shipping Facts  

• REALISE - European Project on Short Sea Shipping and Intermodality (2002-2005)

Interesting reports, speeches, research articles and papers available online include (the first set is generally by academics and the second set by government practitioners):

• An Evaluation Study on the Social Experiment of Modal Shift to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emission (2005) by Yoji Takahashi
• Constraints to Korea's Coastal Shipping and Practical Solutions (2004) by Kay-Shek Cho
• Ocean Shipping Cartels: A Survey (2004) by William Sjostrom

• Preparing for Tomorrow, Delivering Today: Freight Action Plan for Scotland (2006) from the Scottish Executive
• Coastal Shipping Cargo 2003/04 (2005) from the New Zealand Ministry of Transport
• Review of Part X of the Trade Practices Act 1974: International Liner Cargo Shipping (2005) by the Australian Productivity Commission
• Shortsea Shipping - Backgrounder (2003) from Transport Canada

Other sites

• Shipspotting.com  
• New Zealand Ship & Marine Society  
• New Zealand National Maritime Museum  
• New Zealand Coastal Shipping  

Last modified 29 December 2007

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