| The evolution of technology and labor costs in maritime countries results, throughout the international competition, in a transfer of shipping from developed countries to some newly industrialized countries, although the protectionism and the international cooperation can modify, liule or more, this tranfer. [0 make the maximum profit from shipping industry for the national economy, a new maritime policy is supposed to be worked out in line with such an evolution, so as to decide when and how the government should be involved. That policy ought to have three stages concerning successively the preparation, the development and the retreat of shipping industry. A merchant fleet is often considered to be a constitutive element of national sovereignty.... |
