The Review of Maritime Transport 2022 was prepared by UNCTAD under the overall guidance of Shamika N. Sirimanne, Director of the Division on Technology and Logistics of UNCTAD, and under the coordination of Jan Hoffmann, Head of the Trade Logistics Branch, Division on Technology and Logistics. Regina Asariotis, Mark Assaf, Celine Bacrot, Hassiba Benamara, Juan Luis Crucelegui, Poul Hansen, Jan Hoffmann, Argyro Kepesidi, Tomasz Kulaga, Renaud Massenet, Teresa Moreira, Anila Premti, Luisa Rodríguez, Hidenobu Tokuda, Pamela Ugaz and Frida Youssef made contributions to the report.
The report benefitted from contributions from officials from the International Maritime Organization and from regional commissions of the United Nations (ECE, ECLAC, ESCAP, and ESCWA): Julian Abril Garcia, Adel Alghaberi, Peter Adams, Eliana Barleta, Jan de Boer, Aicha Cherif, Yann Duval, Martina Fontanet Solé, Fouad Ghorra, Azhar Jaimurzina Ducrest, Sooyeob Kim, Dorota Lost-Sieminska, Ricardo Sanchez, and Lynn Tan.
Comments and suggestions from the following reviewers are gratefully acknowledged: Hashim Abbas Syed, Julian Abril Garcia, Takuya Adachi, Peter Adams, Roar Adland, Stefanos Alexopoulos, Mario Apostolov, Emilie Berger, Börje Berneblad, Pierre-Jean Bordahandy, Mary Brooks, Aicha Cherif, Trevor Crowe, Laurent Daniel, Bud Dar, Neil Davidson, Ismael Cobos Delgado, Jan de Boer, Peter de Langen, Rolando Diaz, Thorsten Diephaus, Juan Manuel Díez Orejas, Simone Egerton, Minsang Eom, Mahin Faghfouri, Fredrik Haag, Mark Henderson, James Hookham, Richard Martin Humphreys, Anne Kappel, Eleni Kontou, John Manners-Bell, Sunhye Lee, Socrates Leptos-Bourgi, Ignacio Lopez Chaves, Dorota Lost-Sieminska, Turloch Mooney, Alan Murphy, Sarah Oliver, Sascha Pristrom, Stefan Raes, Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Torbjörn Rydbergh, Peter Sand, Clemens Schapeler, Vivek Srivastava, Emily Stausbøll, Stellios Stratidakis, Lynn Tan, Antonella Teodoro, Malay Trivedi, Patrick Verhoeven, Brandt Wagner and Tengfei Wang, Experts from the International Chamber of Shipping reviewed Chapter 2.
Comments received from UNCTAD divisions as part of the internal peer review process, as well as comments from the Office of the Secretary-General, are acknowledged with appreciation.
The Review was edited by Peter Stalker. Administrative, editing, and proofreading support was provided by Wendy Juan. Magali Studer designed the publication.
Overall layout, graphics and desktop publishing were undertaken by the Division of Conference Management of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Special thanks are also due to Vladislav Shuvalov for reviewing the publication in full.