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”The COVID-19 crisis has given a further push to maritime informatics and the digitalization of logistics. We now need to ensure that we lock-in the advances made during lock-down. This will then also help us with our next and even bigger challenge: The decarbonization of shipping.” Jan Hoffmann, Chief, Trade Logistics Branch, Division on Technology and Logistics, UNCTAD

Watson R. T., Lind M., Lehmacher W. (2023) Successful collaboration by managing dependencies in the shipping ecosystem, Article No. 110 [UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°99 – Third Quarter 2023]

Lind M., Lehmacher W., Reinhart J. A., Watson R. T., Carson-Jackson J., Singh S. (2023) How Experts in Shipping Perceive the Mid-term Future – Three Schools of Thought, Article No. 105 [UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°98 – Second Quarter 2023] (https://unctad.org/news/transport-newsletter-article-no-105-how-experts-perceive-the-future)

Lind M., Haraldson S., Lehmacher W., Raza Z., Forsström E., Astner L., Bentham J., Fu X., Suroto J., Zuesongdham P. (2023) Thinking the future energy model nodes of the world – a reflection framework for port development, Article No. 103 [UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°97 – First Quarter 2023] (https://unctad.org/news/transport-newsletter-article-no-103-future-energy-nodes)

Lind M., Lehmacher W., Watson R. T. (2022) Collaboration and digitalization for balanced economic and societal capital creation by shipping, Article No. 96 [UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°96 – Fourth Quarter 2022] (https://unctad.org/news/transport-newsletter-article-no-96-fourth-quarter-2022)

Lind M., Lehmacher W. (2022) Positioning partnerships in shipping decarbonization, Article No. 92 [UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°95 – Third Quarter 2022] (https://unctad.org/news/positioning-partnerships-shipping-decarbonization)

Lind M., Lehmacher W., Åhlén Björk S., Haraldson S., Pålsson C., Penttilä R., Tikka K., Watson R.T. (2022) Decarbonizing the maritime sector: Mobilizing coordinated action in the industry using an ecosystems approach, Article No. 89 [UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°94 – Second Quarter 2022] (https://unctad.org/news/decarbonizing-maritime-sector-mobilizing-coordinated-action-industry-using-ecosystems-approach)

Lind M., Haraldson S., Lind K., Lehmacher W., Svan M., Renz M., Gardeitchik J., Singh S., Zuesongdham P. (2021) ”Ports of tomorrow: measuring digital maturity to empower sustainable port operations and business ecosystems”, Article No. Article No. 82 [UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°92 – Fourth Quarter 2021] (https://unctad.org/news/ports-tomorrow-measuring-digital-maturity-empower-sustainable-port-operations-and-business)

Lind M., Lehmacher W., Knäpper I., van Gogh M., Maaouni T., Benhayoun J., Ashikhmin D., Lahmar H., Sigal M. (2021) Collaborative innovation within the maritime sector: the path to grow back better, Article No. 73 [UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°89 – First Quarter 2021] (https://unctad.org/news/collaborative-innovation-within-maritime-sector-path-grow-back-better)

Lind M., Gogh van M., Becha H., Kouwenhoven N., Lehmacher W., Lund E., Mulder H., Murphy N., Simha A. (2020) Information Sharing Communities for Digitally Enabled Supply Chain Visibility, Article No. 64[UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°88 – Fourth Quarter 2020] (https://unctad.org/news/information-sharing-communities-digitally-enabled-supply-chain-visibility

Lind M., Croston J. C. (2020) Rethinking maritime businesses for the digital age: the evolving role of ship agents, Article No. 49 [UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°85 – First Quarter 2020] (https://unctad.org/en/pages/newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersionID=2306)

Lind M., Michaelides M., Ward R., Herodotou H., Watson  R.T. (2019) Boosting data-sharing to improve Short Sea Shipping Performance: Evidence from Limassol port calls analysis, Article No. 35 [UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°82 – Second Quarter 2019] (https://unctad.org/en/pages/newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersionID=2102)

Lind M., Ward R., Bergmann M., Haraldson S., Zerem A. (2019) Digitalizing the port call process, UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Series No. 13, UNCTAD (https://unctad.org/en/pages/PublicationWebflyer.aspx?publicationid=2663)

Lind M., Watson  R.T., Ward R., Bergmann M., Bjørn-Andersen N., Rosemann M., Haraldson, S., Andersen T.,  (2018) Digital Data Sharing: The Ignored Opportunity for Making Global Maritime Transport Chains More Efficient , Article No. 22 [UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°79 – Third Quarter 2018] (https://unctad.org/en/pages/newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersionID=1850)

Lind M., Watson R., Hoffmann J., Ward R., Michaelides M. (2020) Maritime Informatics: an emerging discipline for a digitally connected efficient, sustainable and resilient industry, Article No. 59[UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°87 – Third Quarter 2020] (https://unctad.org/en/pages/newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersionID=2456