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Money laundering, drugs, asylum-seeking, arms trades, people smuggling, slave trades and let us not forget the movement of terrorist materials around the world are all common features of the maritime sector and facilitated by the heady mix of globalisation and shipping. Central to the concept of change and flux in policies and the governance of the maritime sector is the concept of flow, representing the movement that needs to be repeated within maritime policy if it is to become dynamic and to reflect the constantly changing world of the shipowner, port manager, maritime lawyer and banker, and other stakeholders within the industry. It is a concept that is also needed to accommodate maritime policies within a governance framework in which they have to operate outside the maritime sector and within the wider spread of stakeholders that exists but which are frequently overlooked. In this chapter, we shall consider the work of Manuel Castells and the Space of Flows, but although highly significant, this is not the only aspect of flow that needs to be debated from a governance perspective and within a maritime context. Other issues include the relationship of flow to process and how although closely related, they are not the same thing. Flows, hierarchies and fluids will also be central to the discussion along with the relationship of flow to our earlier consideration of space, territories and boundaries. And after all this, we draw it together looking at the development of flows in governance and policy-making and the issue of speed.

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