In 2020, Christiaan De Beukelaer spent 150 days covering 14,000 nautical miles aboard the schooner Avontuur, a hundred-year-old sailing vessel that transports cargo across the Atlantic Ocean. Embarking in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, he wanted to understand the realities of a little-known alternative to the shipping industry on which our global economy relies, and which contributes more carbon emissions than aviation. What started as a three-week stint of fieldwork aboard the ship turned into a five-month journey, as the COVID-19 pandemic forced all borders shut while crossing the ocean, preventing the crew from stepping ashore for months on end.

Trade winds engagingly recounts De Beukelaer's life-changing personal odyssey and the complex journey the shipping industry is on to cut its carbon emissions. The Avontuur's mission remains crucial as ever: the shipping industry urgently needs to stop using fossil fuels, starting today. If we can't swiftly decarbonise shipping, we can't solve the climate crisis.

Christiaan De Beukelaer works at the University of Melbourne and has held visiting positions at the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham and at the universities of Copenhagen, Jyväskylä, Cape Town, Hildesheim, and Coimbra. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

The author had actually completed his time on the high seas. A life that always goes a little different has brought him back into a seafaring that is no longer romantic. This book contains fifteen travel reports from 2011 to 2014, as they were sent to friends, relatives, neighbors and acquaintances. They tell of everyday life in the on -board operation of normal container ships, of blind passengers, of pirates, of seafarers, of the ports, the weather and much more as well as what the writing sailor thinks. The travel reports alternate with a summary of the author's maritime biography from 1985 to 2018.

Globalization in today's scope would not be possible without the seafaring, but the price is high: the seafaring is on a collision course with the environment, it is still dangerous, the crews in sea and inland navigation often work under precarious conditions. But Switzerland as the fourth largest shipping location in Europe hardly wants to know anything about the considerable challenges of shipping.

Switzerland as an important seafaring - increased by the ships under the control of the local raw material dealers and also as a flag state in the river cruise - is involved in all problem areas of shipping, right down to scrapping the sea ships on tide beaches, which has horrible consequences for people and the environment. It is therefore urgent that Switzerland takes care of the topic and raises its voice in international committees in order to tackle the problems of seafaring in the club with the big shipping nations instead of closing the eyes and providing problem companies.

In November without a motor through the North Sea and the Biskaya via the Atlantic in the Caribbean, back in Holland, the ship's belly bumping around, cocoa and coffee beans: The retired journalist, sailing on board the TREN Hombres, connected his travel report to ship exhaust gas and climatic load. The shipping industry relies on efficiency through still larger ships. However, their investments in the development of non -fossil fuels with which they pretend to react to the climate crisis, not least the business models of powerful energy companies save and do not meet the core of the problem: the inflated and growing world trade, the transport of which is 90 percent off on the seas. What is more important than the few tons of organic products, which promotes the growing movement of the sailing freight trees, is therefore the associated message: there is another way. But a lot has to be different so that it can be done, for example by reducing the transport demand that arises on land to a socially and nature-friendly measure.

The magazine " Waterkant - Environment + Mensch + Work in the North Sea region "Was founded in 1986 as the" newsletter "of the marine protection organization" Action Conference North Sea "(AKN). At the end of 2008, the AKN end their publisher for financial reasons. In order to keep the traditional magazine alive, some long -time employees of the sheet had previously had the "Förderkreis Waterkant e. V." of the same name of the same name. Founded and continued independently.

In terms of content, Waterkant not only deals with nature conservation and marine research. Coastal structure and traffic policy, topics related to water, as well as other urgent social issues: Environmental destruction, health damage, unemployment and social misery usually have a common cause- they are the consequences of the still almost uninhibited neoliberal competition and the ruthless, global hunting for resources and profits.

The editorial team and authors of the Waterkant were always volunteered and the regular appearance of the booklet could only be secured all these years, because also in technical production, in administration and sales was partly worked without payment. At the end of 2019 / early 2020, Waterkant had to set the publication as a printed magazine. Until further notice, Waterkant is still present on the web-as an archive for 34 years of committed work as well as as a critical Maritime web portal.

Why would do Lawyers, Who Have Never Worked As Mariners, Write A Book About Shipping? We have for many years be involved in development methods to implement international regulations on a worldwide base and have an interest in global supply chains. Merchant shipping is a hugely relevant, but not so much researched piece in a global supply chain. One of the Key Challenges of Shipping is that there is generalally no lacquer of regulation, but a blatant deficit in implementation and enforcement.

For this book, Beyond Desk Research, We have visited challenging places and interviewed key operators. We have gone to accident sites, Like the Netherlands or Mauritius, we have participated in spot checks by Trade Union Union and Have Visited the Ship Recycling Yards in Alang, India.

In a first round, we have authored a book on the role of Switzerland in Managing Merchant and Cruise Ships. Frequently, it is overseen that this Landlocked Country Hosts Companies Managing, According to Current Calculation, Up to 3.600 Ships. Official switzerland is not concerned by this industry the vast majority of these ships is flagged out to a flag of convenience. If you want, thesis Companies Are Flying Under the Radar.

We will discuss in this book that flags of convenience are a crucial dimension of the deficiencies in shipping. However, there is more to it. The way in which global shipping is regulated Today Seems outdated in many respect. Some of the Current Core Principles of Maritime Regulation Were Invented at a Time When Shipping was still a profession of performed by Brave Explorers and Adventurers. Regulation and Control is at Times Insufficient, and Often Too Slow and Too Weak to Respond for Example to the Speed ​​That Container Shipping Has Grown Sion of the Millennium. It is difficult to monitor, let alone enforce, The Law on the High Seas.

Therefore is Seemed Logical to Discuss the Major Challenges of Shipping: Preservation of the Ocean, Environmental Protection and Labor Conditions on Board from a global Perspective.

The Oceans Are Difficult to Compring in their Inaccessibility and Dimension, and for the Most Part Elude Our Awareness. And they have hardly an advocate nor a lobby. This is all the more remarkable given that the oceans have a significant impact on our climate and are an Increasingly Important Source of Food. In Order to Raise Public Awareness of Marine Science and Thus Contribute to More Effective Marine Protection, Mareverlag Founded the non-Profit Company Maribus in 2008. The World Ocean Review Can Be Ordered Free Of Charge In Print and All Articles Are Available Online.