The (New) Law of Maritime Safety

This diachronic overview of the Maritime Safety Law is aimed at all readers and researchers interested in the maritime-port sector, whether they are law specialists or not. The book begins with a summary of the leading institutes of maritime law (including the regime of the Ship), moves on to the main international instruments of maritime safety and ends with the climate change challenges facing the sector. The international community is engaged in the fight against climate change. Despite COP 26 being sparse in measures, the European Union is foreseeing a revision of the Emissions Trading Directive, which integrates the “Fit for 55” acquis on climate and energy reform that will force the maritime industry to regenerate and adopt new renewable fuels and emission limits. It will allow readers to look at the changes in the subject, giving them a taste of its normative acquis, to navigate in time and to look to the future! This English edition includes several updates about energy transition with a particular reference to the COP27 held in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt.