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Maritime Research, Technology, Demonstration, and Deployment
(RTDD)
R&D Contributing
Resources & Activities for Innovation: Economics
Economic forces and their
impacts on the maritime industry require constant evaluation.
Globalization: Shipping and trade liberalization, and advances in
technology and competition have facilitated world trade, growth and prosperity in the
maritime system. Managing the system is a complex function and requires skills in
understanding international shipping institutions and their frameworks.
High Speed Shipping: Markets depend on the delivery of goods and services
without delay, error, or damage.
Production and Distribution: Ports and shipyards are nodes along the
production-distribution chain. Intensifying competition among ports requires
effective management of shipping networks and accessibility to intermodal points.
Shipping Investment and Finance: Demand-driven and user-oriented economic development in the
maritime sector has led to commercial financing approaches to attract investment
opportunities, changing the mechanisms of sector financing.
Vitality: Members
of the maritime community are facing challenges to meet mandates for lower energy costs,
reduce exhaust emissions, and other environmental challenges while remaining competitive
on the world market.
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