The Organizing Committee would like to express heartfelt thanks to the following scholars for their invaluable inputs to the IFSPA 2012 conference.

	Michele Acciaro		Roar Adland
	Det Norske Veritas, Norway		Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
	Yann Alix		Stephen Cahoon
	Fondation SEFACIL Le Havre, France		Australian Maritime College, Australia
	Pierre Cariou		Watcharavee Chandraprakaikul
	Marseilles Business School, France		The University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, Thailand
	Young-Tae Chang		Tao Chen
	Inha University, Korea		Kainan University, Taiwan
	Peggy Shu-Ling Chen		Jason Chuah
	Australian Maritime College, Australia		City University London, United Kingdom
	Raghu Dayal		Qing Ding
	Asian Institute of Transport Development, India		Singapore Management University, Singapore
	John Dinwoodie		Patrick Donner
	Plymouth University, United Kingdom		World Maritime University, Sweden
	César Ducruet		Michael G. Faure
	University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France		Maastricht University, The Netherlands
	Lixian Fan		Gengzhong Feng
	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong		Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
	Xiaowen Fu		Qi Fu
	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong		Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
	Walter Fung		Stephen Gong
	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong		The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
	Deniz Güner-Özbek		Pengfei Guo
	Koç University, Turkey		The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
	Girish Gujar		Peter V. Hall
	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong		Simon Fraser University, Canada
	Gaofeng Huang		Eddie Hui
	Balliol College, Oxford, United Kingdom		The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
	Ki-Soon Hwang		Mike Kee-Hung Lai
	Kingston University, United Kingdom		The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
	Jasmine Siu Lee Lam		Eon-Seong Lee
	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore		University of Tasmania, Australia
	Sung-Woo Lee		Zheng Lei
	Korea Maritime Institute, Korea		Cranfield University, United Kingdom
	Kevin Li		Gang Li
	Chung-Ang University, Korea		Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
	Luke Li		Yi-Hsin Lin
	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong		Asia University, Taiwan
	Heiki Lindpere		Alison Lloyd
	Estonia Maritime Academy, Estonia		The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
	Meifeng Luo		Prakash Metaparti
	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong		The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
	Heather McLaughlin		Toshinori Nemoto
	Canterbury Christ Church University,United Kingdom		Hitotsubashi University, Japan
	Michael Roe		Christopher Seow
	Plymouth University, United Kingdom		University of East London, United Kingdom
	Dongping Song		Xinyu Sun
	Plymouth University, United Kingdom		The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
	Atsuo Suzuki		Christa Sys
	Nanzan University, Japan		University of Antwerp, Belgium
	Sik Kwan Tai		Owen Tang
	City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong		The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
	Van Vinh Thai		George K. Vaggelas
	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore		University of the Aegean, Greece
	Simme Veldman		Jin Wang
	ECORYS Holding BV, The Netherlands		Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
	Peter Wong		Jun Wu
	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong		Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
	Jane Xu		Liang Xu
	Cardiff University, United Kingdom		Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China
	Zhou Xu		Hangjun Yang
	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong		University of International Business and Economics, China
	Bibo Yang		Hengqing Ye
	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong		The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
	Jingbo Yin		T. L. Yip
	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong		The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
	Andrew C.L. Yuen		Anming Zhang
	The Chinese University of Hong Kong		University of British Columbia, Canada
	Liang Zhao
	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong