
THE INDO-PACIFIC LEGACY OF ABE SHINZO
Over the week that has elapsed since the tragic loss of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated in his home country on the 8th of July 2022, the world has witnessed a deluge of eulogies for this charismatic world leader…

DECIPHERING THE INDO-PACIFIC ECONOMIC FRAMEWORK (IPEF)
In a recent article entitled “Filling in the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework”, Matthew P Goodman and William Alan Reinsch commented that the Biden Administration is all set to launch the “Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF)” as the…

BOOK REVIEW - Sustainable Shipping: A Cross Disciplinary View
By Harilaos N Psaraftis, Springer, 2019, 500 pages, EUR 96.29
e-ISBN: 978-3-030-04330-8
Traditionally, shipping has been considered as a ‘hard-to-abate’ sector owing to the nature of its operations and the complexity of appropriating greenhouse…

ENHANCING INDIA-AUSTRALIA TIES THROUGH MARITIME TRADE
This article launches the NMF’s advocacy for closer India-Australia economic and strategic ties and argues that the synchronisation of bilateral maritime trade may hold the key to future growth in the relationship between these two critical…

ASSESSING THE SHIPPING INDUSTRY’S CONTRIBUTION TO GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
The impacts of climate change are now affecting the way of life for billions of people in almost every part of the planet. Future projections, derived from the latest climate models, suggest that the global average temperature could rise by…

LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE CORONA VIRUS OUTBREAK AND THE MARITIME TRADE TO AND FROM ISRAEL
Israel's healthcare system is currently gearing up to cope with the recent Corona virus outbreak, and the main entry point to the country, Ben-Gurion International Airport, is mostly deserted – a clear illustration of the severe impairment…

FRANCE: MAKE IN INDIA AND THE INDO-PACIFIC CONNECT
Much has been said about the delivery of the first two Scorpene submarines from France to India, and especially about the associated technology transfer, allowing India to consider the construction of the next four engines on its own. However,…

PHYSICAL PROTECTION OF INDIA’S CRITICAL MARITIME INFRASTRUCTURE: PART 3: MARITIME TRANSPORT: SHIPPING
India defines Critical Sectors as those that are critical to the nation and whose incapacity or destruction will have a debilitating impact on national security, economy, public health or safety.
This is the third of a series of articles…


NAVAL AIR STATIONS AS CATALYSTS FOR STATE ECONOMIES
In recent days, some newspapers in Goa have reported on issues of No Objection Certificates (NOC) that the Indian Navy provides for certain buildings, development and infrastructure at a specified radius around the Naval Air Station (NAS), Dabolim.…

