“Global Maritime Conference (GMC’21)”, which will be organized for the fourth time with the partnership of TMMOB The Chamber of Marine Engineers, Strathclyde University, Constanta Maritime University and Iskenderun Technical University, will be held online on 18-19 November 2021 this year.

This year’s main themes of the international conference will be “Decarbonization in the Maritime Sector” and “Effects of the Pandemic on Maritime Education and Maritime Transport”. In addition, scientific research on subjects such as technological approaches in maritime, human factor, innovative design and inventions, cyber security at sea, new marine fuels and efficiency, shipbuilding, logistics and maritime trade and law, port operations, digital approaches in maritime transport management, etc. will be presented.

As a result of the evaluations to be made by the academic board, the papers deemed worthy of academic publication will be published as full text in the Journal of ETA Maritime Science (JEMS), which is published by TMMOB The Chamber of Marine Engineers.

As the organizing board, we would like to express our gratitude in advance for the participation of our maritime industry’s valuable stakeholders to our conference and for their academic, institutional and sponsorship support as well. We would like to respectfully announce to the maritime public our wish for a useful and productive conference.