Why are maritime laws failing to protect the oceans? | show type

Wars and territorial disputes are rewriting the rules of global shipping.

From the Strait of Hormuz to the Panama Canal and from the Red Sea to the Black Sea, threats to maritime traffic are increasing.

Is shipping becoming the new global battlefield? And why are decades-old laws governing the ocean failing?

Presenter: James Baze

Guest:

Rockford Weitz – Director of the Fletcher Studies Program at Tufts University

George Theocharidis – Professor of Maritime Law and Policy at the World Maritime University

Stavros Karamparidis – Associate Professor in Marine Economics at the University of Plymouth