All papers presented during the conference and accepted by the Scientific Committee will be included in the volume of conference proceedings published in an open access scheme. All the documents are free to read and download. Copyright is retained by the author(s) under the Creative Commons Attribution license.

The organizers aspire to provide an wide range of indexation of conference proceedings

• Conference Proceedings Citation Index (Web of Science)
• DOAJ
• EBSCO (EBSCO Discovery Service)
• Google Scholar
• Social Science Database (ProQuest)
• Social Science Premium Collection (ProQuest)
• Sociology Collection (ProQuest)
• Sociology Database (ProQuest)

All the documents are free to read and download. Copyright is retained by the author(s) under the Creative Commons Attribution license. All published articles are peer reviewed. The journals' policy encourages the use of blind peer review and, when possible, multiple reviewers. Reviews should be supplied by expert referees, who have been requested to provide unbiased and constructive comments aimed, whenever possible, at improving the work.

The papers must report original, previously unpublished findings in the fields of maritime economy, shipping, port and maritime administration issues. Papers must be written in good English and should clearly state the purpose of the work and include: an introduction, methodology, results and main conclusions. A single paper's length should be between 5-10 pages.

Please, remember that the paper publication must be combined with a presentation on the GLOBMAR 2018 Conference.

* In Poland, authors of papers published in the SHS Conference Series: Humanities and Social Sciences (SHS) receive 15 points per paper (accordingly to the directive of the Minister of Science and Higher Education, papers published in peer-reviewed conference proceedings, which are included in the recognized international database, receive the number of points corresponding to the lowest-scoring publications in the list A – i.e. 15 points). Authors receive points after indexing their papers in Web of Science database (It takes typically a few months)