The Review of Maritime Transport 2021 was prepared by UNCTAD under the overall guidance of Shamika N. Sirimanne, Director of the Division on Technology and Logistics of UNCTAD, and under the coordination of Jan Hoffmann, Head of the Trade Logistics Branch, Division on Technology and Logistics. Regina Asariotis, Gonzalo Ayala, Mark Assaf, Celine Bacrot, Hassiba Benamara, Dominique Chantrel, Amélie Cournoyer, Marco Fugazza, Poul Hansen, Jan Hoffmann, Tomasz Kulaga, Anila Premti, Luisa Rodríguez, Benny Salo, Kamal Tahiri, Hidenobu Tokuda, Pamela Ugaz and Frida Youssef were contributing authors. 

The report benefitted from reviews and contributions by officials from the International Maritime Organization, the International Labour Organization partners of the TrainForTrade Port Management Programme and the five regional commissions of the United Nations (ECA, ECE, ECLAC, ESCAP, and ESCWA): Julian Abril Garcia, Peter Adams, Mario Apostolov, Yarob Badr, Jan de Boer, Aicha Cherif, Ismael Cobos Delgado, Yann Duval, Martina Fontanet Solé, Fouad Ghorra, Fredrik Haag, Robert Lisinge, Dorota Lost-Sieminska, Ricardo Sanchez, Lynn Tan, Lukasz Wyrowski and Brandt Wagner. 

Comments and suggestions from the following reviewers are gratefully acknowledged: Hashim Abbas Syed, Roar Adland, Stefanos Alexopoulos, Jason Angelopoulos, Tracy Chatman, Trevor Crowe, Neil Davidson, Juan Manuel Díez Orejas, Mahin Faghfouri, Mike Garrat, Nadia Hasham, Joe Hiney, Julian Hoffmann Anton, Onno Hoffmeister, Roel Janssens, Lars Jensen, Björn Klippel, Eleni Kontou, Juan Manuel, Antonis Michail, Turloch Mooney, Richard Morton, Plamen Natzkoff, Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Peter Sand, Torbjorn Rydbergh, Alastair Stevenson, Stelios Stratidakis, Christa Sys, Antonella Teodoro and Ruosi Zhang. Experts from the International Chamber of Shipping reviewed chapter 

Comments received from UNCTAD divisions as part of the internal peer review process, as well as comments from the Office of the Secretary-General, are acknowledged with appreciation. 

The Review was edited by Peter Stalker. Administrative, editing, and proofreading support was provided by Wendy Juan. Magali Studer designed the publication, and Juan Carlos Korol did the formatting. 

Special thanks are also due to Vladislav Shuvalov for reviewing the publication in full.