In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic completely shook the lives of individuals and also had a tremendous impact on the world economy. Our lives were basically turned upside-down, almost overnight. Two years later, in year 2022, the impact of pandemic is still present, despite more or less successful control of the spread of the virus – it is still deeply embedded in both – the world's population and the economy. Due to many different and constantly changing regulations concerning COVID-19 pandemic this master's thesis is based on data collected in 2020 in order to not get lost in the flood of diverse information.
The main aim of the master thesis was to determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on maritime trade and what were the restrictions of ship-owners in the fight against the negative effects of COVID-19. Through various approaches ship-owners tried to mitigate the negative impact of the pandemic (such as cancellations of trips, reduction of speed and orders for new constructions) and were furthermore quite successful. Through this master's thesis, I came to the conclusion, that the COVID-19 epidemic, despite initially very tragic forecasts for the maritime industry itself, had a relatively mild effect, as it recovered fairly quickly and began to achieve record results once again.
|
