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Securing the backbone: Security challenges to and governance of submarine cables in the Indo-Pacific

  • Jeslyn Tan,

Despite the importance of submarine cables to global supply chains and economy, this critical infrastructure is vulnerable to attacks and damage.

The challenges of cleaner fuels for shipping supply chains

  • Peter Cook,

Unless governments across the Asia Pacific make decisions about the fuels for the ships they depend on they are likely to be disadvantaged.

The deepening climate emergency for Pacific domestic shipping supply chains and what can be done

  • Peter Nuttall,

Survival without shipping is not possible for societies dependent on imports for essential commodities.

Security, surveillance, protection from maritime crime and piracy in Southeast Asia

  • John F. Bradford,

There are several problematic trends which may give pirates, terrorists and other criminals the opportunity needed to re-emerge as a threat.

Geo-economic trends and maritime supply chain resilience: What’s next for the Indo-Pacific?

  • Dr Hanizah Idris,

There are many economic challenges to shipping supply chains, including decarbonisation and geopolitics.

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