The IMAM Congress is a forum organised by the maritime technical community of the Mediterranean, attended by qualified representatives from the academic and professional sectors worldwide. Although the initial Congresses have focussed on areas in and around the Mediterranean, IMAM Conferences have, in the recent past, been International events dealing with problems of interest to the industrial sector globally. The conference welcomes the participation of all professionals worldwide who are active in fields related to Maritime Transportation and Harvesting of Sea Resources, involved or interested in the development of any of the thematic areas covered by the Congress.

The IMAM Congress is a forum organised by the maritime technical community of the Mediterranean, attended by qualified representatives from the academic and professional sectors worldwide. Although the initial Congresses have focussed on areas in and around the Mediterranean, IMAM Conferences have, in the recent past, been International events dealing with problems of interest to the industrial sector globally. The conference welcomes the participation of all professionals worldwide who are active in fields related to Maritime Transportation and Harvesting of Sea Resources, involved or interested in the development of any of the thematic areas covered by the Congress.

Maritime Transportation and Harvesting of Sea Resources is a collection of the papers presented at IMAM 2017, the 17th International Congress of the Maritime Association of the Mediterranean (Lisbon, Portugal, 9-11 October 2017). In its seventeenth edition, the IMAM series of Conferences started in 1978 when the first Congress was organised in Istanbul, Turkey. In its nearly forty years of history, this biannual event has concentrated its focus on: Maritime Transportation & Logistics; Sea Resources; Hydrodynamics; Structures; Machinery & Control; Design; Shipbuilding and repair; Safety of Marine; Systems; Sea Waves; Aquaculture & Fishing; Marine Environment; Offshore Oil & Gas; Offshore Renewable Energy; Defence & Security; Human Factors; Legal/ Social Aspects; Materials; Noise & Vibration; Small & Pleasure Crafts; Offshore & Coastal Development. This is must-read literature for academics, engineers and all professionals involved in the area of maritime transportation and exploitation of sea resources.