'Quality shipping' is a campaign to improve the quality of the shipping industry through the use of incentive schemes. This article deals with incentive schemes to prevent marine pollution prevention and proposes to promote these schemes.

Climate experts are divided in their opinions but I propose that global warming will decrease the productivity of the ocean. The data obtained from ocean drilling speak volumes about the response of the productivity of the ocean to climate change in the last 2 million years. And yet, the nations of the world are arguing what to do about global warming. Mankind is yet to gain clear-cut answers.

Owing to those who valiantly challenged the unknown and open sea, the foundation for modern oceanography was laid. 130 years ago, Jules Verne demonstrated his scientific knowledge and fertile imagination in "20,000 Leagues under the Sea". People of our own time should pay attention at least to the EEZ, i.e. 200 miles offshore, or should have therefore one (precisely a half) percent of Verne's imagination and interest in the sea.