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Maritime Policy

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Our work on maritime policy focuses on how policymakers can ensure the country has the capacity and structures it needs to effectively meet the demands of a maritime power.

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Liberty Yards

1/7/26

Mary Bridges offers an answer to America’s shipbuilding crisis: public shipyards. The paper examines how domestic commercial shipbuilding collapsed over the 20th century, why current proposals won’t work, and what type of investment America needs to make in our shipping infrastructure.

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Regulation of Shipping Exchanges

1/7/26

As shipping exchanges become an increasingly important part of the international shipping sector, Daniel Zhao argues that the FMC should adopt regulations to ensure fair access and advance transparency, and to prohibit conflicts of interest, exclusionary conduct, and market manipulation.

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