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Received: 6 November 2024

Accepted: 2 April 2025

First Online: 29 April 2025

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: The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.The authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of the article.The authors have no financial or proprietary interests in any material discussed in this article.A statement of consent was provided at the beginning of the survey.

: The research received ethical approval from the WMU Research Ethics Committee (#REC- 24–45(R)).

: Participants signed a consent form prior to engaging in the workshop, consenting to their anonymized data being used for the purposes of the study, viz:I consent to my personal data, as outlined above, being used for this study. I understand that all personal data relating to participants is held and processed in the strictest confidence, and will be deleted after 10 years of the completion of research.The survey instrument contained the following text in its introduction:By proceeding with the survey, we understand that you give your consent to the information provided by you being used for research purposes. Your personal information will not be published. You may withdraw from the research at any time. Anonymised research data will be archived on a secure virtual drive linked to a World Maritime University email address. All the anonymised data will be deleted after 10 years of the completion of the research.

: The authors hereby consent to the publication of the manuscript in the WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs.