About Maritime Business Review

Aims and scope

When submitting a manuscript, authors will be taken to a service called Paperpal Preflight, an AI-driven tool that checks manuscripts against the journal's author guidelines. Authors are free to use or bypass this step and submit directly to ScholarOne.

Maritime Business Review (MABR) aims to provide the latest research insights and state-of-the-art theory and management practice to maritime researchers and practitioners on all aspects of maritime business.

MABR will serve all maritime business disciplines that include, but are not limited to:

  • Shipping market analysis and forecasting
  • Customer services and marketing
  • Organisational behaviour in maritime business
  • Innovation management
  • Maritime security
  • Safety management
  • Shipping finance
  • Marine insurance
  • Ship chartering
  • Bulk shipping
  • Fleet management
  • Maritime education and training
  • Human resource management
  • Strategic alliance
  • Intermodal transport operations
  • Port management and operations
  • Terminal management
  • Green ports
  • Cruise operations and management
  • Shipping sustainability and social responsibility
  • Technology in maritime business
  • Legal aspects in maritime business

Open access

All articles published in Maritime Business Review (MABR) are published Open Access under a CCBY 4.0 licence.