¹Business School, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK. E-mail: mroe@plymouth.ac.uk

Abstract

Shipping is a highly internationalised industry working in an increasingly globalised environment. Meanwhile, policy-making in shipping continues to be formulated within a traditional nested hierarchy of jurisdictions that pays little attention to new relationships that exist and intensify between jurisdictional levels, interested parties, and across different locations. This paper examines these issues providing an interpretation of the current shipping policy-making situation and the problems it faces, the need for a new approach and the potential of multi-level governance.