The Maritime Administration (MarAd) announced its participation in the Ad-Hoc Working Group on Security for the Maritime Transportation Committee (MTC) at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris.
Government and industry leaders will be open and encourage an international dialogue on this important matter. "We must participate in these international forums because port security problems require international solutions. It is vital that we work with other countries and international agencies worldwide, as well as with all the modes within the Department of Transportation and other agencies in the U.S.
government." This international initiative complements and augments the extensive domestic work being done in port security, such as the Port Security Grant Program, which is being administered by MarAd and the U.S. Coast guard on behalf of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
Maritime Administrator William G. Schubert says Carlton will apply a balanced approach, one that recognizes the critical need for secure and reliable port operations across the globe, because maritime transportation is the dominant component of our international trade infrastructure, carrying over 95 percent of the volume of U.S. overseas foreign trade."
volume of the member states during the preceding 10 years constitutes not less than 3 percent of the world’s tonnage. To date, there are six member states.OECD Council Decision C(2001) 107/FINALThe Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) promulgated a Council Decision aimed at facilitating
foreign subsidies." The final round in the subsidy talks conducted under the auspices of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) was supposed to take place in December 1990. The negotiations were scheduled to culminate on December 14, 1990 in a signed agreement among 16 nations
through the armies of lawyers from the individual governments and the legal department of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), it can be assured that a new era of building and financing shipbuilding contracts is coming. Once the treaty has been ratified and signed, it
more developed than in North America? How do you see its role in the future? We do not have any reliable figures on domestic transport volumes in non-OECD countries, but for international OECD markets we do not see any significant changes – the tendency in North America and Europe is a slow decline since
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recession. The Korean yards pointed out that Japanese General Trading Companies have now adopted a 7.5 percent interest rate, while the OECD Guide Line is 8 percent. Minister Keum-Jin-Ho said in reply to the request that he would look for ways to improve financing conditions, but the
that stocks among its members (developed countries) had stood at around 2.7 billion barrels throughout 2012, 2013 and into the middle of 2014. By mid 2015, OECD stocks approached 2.9 billion barrels, with levels hovering at near 3.1 billion barrels well into 2017.Even as the oil price turned upward, activity
in the ongoing negotiations. The U.S. has been involved in negotiations with members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) and South Korea to curb shipbuilding subsidies since early last year. On October 13, three leading members of the Senate Finance Committee, Lloyd
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. Speakers will include: P. Geraghty, federal secretary, Seamen's Union of Australia; R.A. Humphrey, head, Maritime Transport and Tourism Division, OECD; A.S. Price, chairman, Liberian Shipowners' Council Ltd.; C. Salen, chairman, Intercargo; and R. Vogel, a COSCO executive and acting director, Shipping
adjustment. OK. Getting back to the economic and statistical indicators, which are most important? Certainly GDP, particularly what is going on in the OECD and non-OECD countries, and most certainly what is going on in China and the other BRIC nations. This is from a broad macro level. From a micro level
the ocean, driven by the recent Organization for need to chart, understand and build on the sea? oor, as well as Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report that MARINE TECHNOLOGY TV 05 Watch the inter- view with Gordon @ bit.ly/3kFupEF Gordon & “GUH” Photo courtesy Subsea UK 44 September/October
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Energy half of the cost dispersion reaches above activity levels seen in 20 years, with rig consultants are saying: “… growth—to Agency (IEA) showed OECD oil stock- $70/barrel suggesting that many projects demand about 3 to 4 percent lower than the tune of 6 percent per annum between piles approaching
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of vessels over the next several years as trade restrictions inhibit economic until the end of their economic life, in this case 25 years old growth in OECD countries in particular. The consolidation of for a Panamax container ship. This is a fundamental based commercial control may help to optimize route
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big names like Maersk, Statoil, the bene? ts that commerce provides for time and the broader business, tech and more people and, as a result, more pos- OECD, the UN and World Economic people worldwide, including education, ? nance sectors. A tailored programme of sibilities for our industry.” Forum, shows
to the Organisation for Eco- at the 21,000m2 exhibition halls of Norges nomic Cooperation and Development Varemesse in Lillestrøm. Here approximate- (OECD), value creation from ocean activi- ly 1000 exhibiting companies showcase their ties is set to double by 2030,” he states, “with latest products,
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ways of going about that, though, are common be- Historically oceanography’s problem is that it didn’t cause we have huge opportunities. For example, the OECD have enough data. Since 2000, with the advent of the Argo produced a report in 2016 that forecast the ocean economy Float Program, we’ve been on
VOICES T e OECD produced a report in 2016 that fore- cast the ocean economy would grow from $1.5 trillion a year to $3 trillion a year by 2030 a lot of really big changes that are happening across the globe, I started off like many oceanographers: in a completely whether that be the change in variability
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can give you some rough numbers. There have been some re- tion is 500,000. Going back to the greater ocean economy I cent studies, most recently by OECD regarding the size of the like to say there are ? ve components: global ocean economy. In rough terms, it turns out that about • security and defense
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