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Sustainability in Maritime Transport: Impact of Cruise Ships’ Routing in Coastal Navigation

This paper makes a review of present researches on sustainable development and sustainable maritime transport and presents the problem of sustainability in the cruise ships industry. It deals with cruise ships' routing in coastal navigation and its impact on sustainability from environmental, economic, and social aspects. A review of researches available on maritime sustainability brings to the attention how sustainability from a maritime transport perspective is still not enough analysed and researched as it is the case in other industries. The paper emphasises how the operational part of the cruise industry, in particular cruise ships routing in coastal navigation, is not yet researched or analysed from the aspect of sustainability. The author, based on his extensive senior officer experience in the cruise industry makes an overview of cruise ships routing practice. Accordingly, based on present cruise industry trends, challenges are highlighted from the aspect of sustainable cruise ships routing in coastal navigation.

Sustainable development, maritime transport, cruise shipping, cruise ship routes, costal navigation

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