U.S. Merchant Marine and World Maritime Review.

The article discusses the U.S. merchant marines and the conditions of international maritime community. It notes that the weak in macroeconomic fundamentals have decisively trumped monetary policy initiatives and continued to choke on global commerce of maritime sector. It states that a 3.2% increase in the world's gross domestic product for 2012, one of the slowest as compared to other recent years according to the initial estimates of the International Monetary Fund.