Purpose The development of the current European economic area maritime cabotage market occurred when, at a policy level, the European Union forced the opening of its member-states cabotage markets to Community shipowners and extended this openness, in 1997, to the european free trade area countries. A two-tier cabotage market emerged, where a European economic area legislative framework co-exists with the legislative acts of each member-state. With such a unique background, this paper aims to investigate both the European economic area member-states and the rest of the world cabotage regimes and identify a list of reasons and policy measures used to implement cabotage policies. Design/methodology/approach By means of a desk research methodological approach, this paper analyses, from a geographical perspective, different countries’ cabotage policies and classifies them, and identifies in a systematically way a set of reasons and policy instruments that support each of chosen policies approach. Findings The outcome indicates that only a few countries promote free liberalised cabotage services and that most countries favour protectionist cabotage policies, whose governments can control the number of foreign vessels participating in these trades. Cabotage regimes have been categorised and the reasons behind both policies and respective policy instruments have been identified. Originality/value Quite often, researchers only focus on the cabotage policies of the European economic area countries, the USA, Australia, Japan and South Korea. This paper value rests on its ability to incorporate cabotage policies from other African, Asian and Latin American countries and to update existing information on the subject. Overall, this paper paves the way to broaden the cabotage knowledge.

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保护主义与自由化的海上人道政策：回顾

目的当前欧洲经济区海上人船市场的发展发生在政策层面上，欧盟迫使其成员国的人船市场向共同体船东开放，并于1997年将这一开放性扩展至欧洲自由贸易区。国家。出现了一个两层的沿海市场，一个欧洲经济区的立法框架与每个成员国的立法行为共存。在这样一个独特的背景下，本文旨在调查欧洲经济区成员国和世界其他地方的航海制度，并确定实施航海政策的原因和政策措施清单。设计/方法论/方法本文采用案头研究方法论方法，从地理角度分析了：不同国家的人船政策并对其进行分类，并系统地确定支持每种选定政策方法的一系列原因和政策工具。调查结果结果表明，只有少数几个国家提倡免费的自由化沿海服务，大多数国家赞成贸易保护主义的沿海政策，其政府可以控制参与这些行业的外国船只的数量。对沿海航行制度进行了分类，并确定了政策和相应政策工具背后的原因。原创性/价值研究人员经常只关注欧洲经济区国家，美国，澳大利亚，日本和韩国的沿海政策。本文的价值在于它能够整合其他非洲人的沿海政策，亚洲和拉丁美洲国家，并更新有关此主题的现有信息。总体而言，本文为拓宽航海知识铺平了道路。