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Future Seaborne Exports and Their Impacts on Bunker Energy Demand: An Estimation of Saudi Container Seaports

Ahm Mehbub Anwar, Abdulrahman Alwosheel

Seaports are crucial for facilitating maritime trade and integrating countries into the global economy. Understanding port business dynamics, including trade and the impact on bunker energy demand, is essential for a nation’s competitiveness. Saudi Arabia’s ports are strategically situated at…

Anwar, Ahm Mehbub

Alwosheel, Abdulrahman

A Review Approach to Understanding the Current Status of Port Resilience: Lessons Learned for GCC Ports

Springer Link

Ahm Mehbub Anwar, Nora Nezamuddin

Analyzing the Interplay of Urbanization, Economic Development, and Seaborne Trade A Case of Saudi Arabia

Ahm Mehbub Anwar, Nourah Al Hosain, Yagyavalk Bhatt

Urbanization is widely recognized as a critical factor influencing economic growth and global trade, yet there is ongoing debate about whether it drives these outcomes or is a consequence of them. To address this, it is essential to determine whether…

Anwar, Ahm Mehbub

Al Hosain, Nourah

Bhatt, Yagyavalk

Approach and Initial Findings in Modeling Future Seaborne Trade and Its Impact on Energy Demand

Ahm Mehbub Anwar, Rubal Dua, Abdulrahman Alwosheel

International shipping contributes approximately 3% of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, prompting the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to aim for net-zero shipping greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 to mitigate climate change. Shipping is a critical link between countries for…

Anwar, Ahm Mehbub

Dua, Rubal

Alwosheel, Abdulrahman

Enabling Net-zero Shipping: An Expert Review-based Agenda for Emerging Techno-economic and Policy Research

Science Direct

Rubal Dua, Ahm Mehbub Anwar, Prateek Bansal

Understanding the Causal Nexus Between Saudi’s Seaborne Trade and Economy and Quantifying the Relationship

Ahm Mehbub Anwar, Mohammad Al Telmesani, Abdulrahman Alwosheel

An economy’s primary objective is to foster high economic growth, ultimately enhancing the well-being of its citizens. Recent economic strategies have increasingly emphasized trade-oriented policies to achieve this goal.

Anwar, Ahm Mehbub

Al Telmesani, Mohammad

Alwosheel, Abdulrahman

Unveiling the Causal Nexus Between Saudi’s Seaborne Trade and Economy: Evidence from an ARDL Model

Springer Link

Ahm Mehbub Anwar, Mohammad Al Telmesani, Abdulrahman Alwosheel

Enabling Net-Zero Shipping An Expert Review-Based Agenda for Emerging Techno-Economic and Policy Research

Kannan Govindan, Rubal Dua, Ahm Mehbub Anwar, Prateek Bansal

Net-zero shipping is emerging as a global priority, underscored by the shipping sector’s increasing projected contribution to climate change, making it critical to understand the emerging associated research priorities. We outline key techno-economic and policy research priorities for achieving effective…

Kannan Govindan

Dua, Rubal

Anwar, Ahm Mehbub

Bansal, Prateek

Fueling the Transition in the Maritime Sector: What Are the Current Status and Path Ahead?

Nora Nezamuddin, Michael Koroma, Ahm Mehbub Anwar

The continued demand for global seaborne trade is estimated to have accounted for 85.9% of world trade in 2023, with demand reaching 12 billion tons. As with the growth in demand, the continued growth in CO₂ emissions from global shipping,…

Nezamuddin, Nora

Michael Koroma

Anwar, Ahm Mehbub

IMO GHG Emission Reduction Strategy: Insight into the Alignment of Saudi Arabia’s Efforts at Maritime Decarbonization

Ahm Mehbub Anwar, Nora Nezamuddin

On July 7, 2023, member states of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) met in London, UK, at the 80th session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 80), where they adopted a revised strategy to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions…

Anwar, Ahm Mehbub

Nezamuddin, Nora

Trend in Eurasia’s Seaborne Trade and Vessel Capacity Between 2013 and 2021

Ahm Mehbub Anwar, Mohammad Al Telmesani, Abdulrahman Alwosheel

International trade between countries and across regions has existed for centuries. Moreover, international trade saw a significant increase in its growth from 1950 to 2000, with trade volume growing at an average rate of 6% per year. The concept of…

Anwar, Ahm Mehbub

Al Telmesani, Mohammad

Alwosheel, Abdulrahman

Saudi Arabia’s Population, GDP, and Seaborne Trade

Mohammad Al Telmesani, Ahm Mehbub Anwar, Abdulrahman Alwosheel

This infographic tells the story about Saudi Arabia’s population, GDP, and seaborne trade. It shows the trade between Saudi Arabia and the rest of the world.

Al Telmesani, Mohammad

Anwar, Ahm Mehbub

Alwosheel, Abdulrahman

World’s Population, GDP, and Seaborne Trade

Mohammad Al Telmesani, Ahm Mehbub Anwar, Abdulrahman Alwosheel

This infographic tells the story about the world’s population, GDP, and seaborne trade. The trade is reflected in regions across the globe.

Al Telmesani, Mohammad

Anwar, Ahm Mehbub

Alwosheel, Abdulrahman

Smart Transportation Systems in Smart Cities: Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities for Saudi Cities

Ahm Mehbub Anwar, Abu Toasin Oakil

Smart transportation is an approach that incorporates modern technologies into transportation systems to improve the efficiency of urban mobility. Cities worldwide call digital technologies to harness their development to address potential challenges and concerns, which provoke technology-driven practices in urban…

Anwar, Ahm Mehbub

Oakil, Abu Toasin

Expert Survey Assessment of Emerging Maritime Decarbonization Challenges and Priorities

Rubal Dua, Ahm Mehbub Anwar

The decarbonization of the maritime sector has emerged as a global concern due to the shipping sector’s 3% contribution to world’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Notably, the latest developments involving the adoption of more ambitious GHG reduction targets by…

Dua, Rubal

Anwar, Ahm Mehbub

Future Fuel Demand From the Saudi Shipping Sector: A Business-as-Usual Estimation

Ahm Mehbub Anwar, Rubal Dua, Abdulrahman Alwosheel, Nora Nezamuddin

The purpose of this commentary is to suggest a rough estimation of future exports and corresponding fuel consumption of the Saudi shipping sector up to 2040. For estimation purposes, we use two assumptions: A global average energy intensity of 0.078…

Anwar, Ahm Mehbub

Dua, Rubal

Alwosheel, Abdulrahman

Nezamuddin, Nora

Urban Transport Energy Demand Model for Riyadh: Methodology and Preliminary Analysis

Abu Toasin Oakil, Ahm Mehbub Anwar, Alma Alhussaini, Nourah Al Hosain, Abdelrahman Muhsen, Anvita Arora

Saudi Arabia intends to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 278 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent annually by 2030, according to its Nationally Determined Contribution to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Among many policies it…

Oakil, Abu Toasin

Anwar, Ahm Mehbub

Alma Alhussaini

Al Hosain, Nourah

Muhsen, Abdelrahman

Arora, Anvita

Modeling Factors Affecting the Choice to Use the Proposed Riyadh Metro System

Ahm Mehbub Anwar, Abu Toasin Oakil, Abdelrahman Muhsen, Anvita Arora

The Riyadh metro system is being implemented as a sustainable transport option that will offer reliable, affordable and comfortable urban mobility. It is important to understand the factors influencing the likelihood that people will use the new metro system. Thus,…

Anwar, Ahm Mehbub

Oakil, Abu Toasin

Muhsen, Abdelrahman

Arora, Anvita

What Would it Take for the People of Riyadh City to Shift From Their Cars to the Proposed Metro?

Science Direct

Ahm Mehbub Anwar, Abu Toasin Oakil, Abdelrahman Muhsen, Anvita Arora

Saudi Arabia’s Potential to Further Hydrogen Use in the Maritime Sector

Nora Nezamuddin, Rami Shabaneh, Ahm Mehbub Anwar

The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 26) in Glasgow focussed on advancing low-carbon fuels to reach emissions abatement targets. The conference also reaffirmed the goals of the Paris Agreement: to secure global net-zero emissions by mid-century and limit the…

Nezamuddin, Nora

Shabaneh, Rami

Anwar, Ahm Mehbub

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