The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are aimed to provide a comprehensive framework for all econo-mies/industries to work toward a more prosperous and environmentally friendly future. Maritime transport and its subsectors like Inland Waterway Transportation (IWT) are needed to attain most SDGs. Thus, it must raise aware-ness of how the marine industry, its sub-sectors, and scientific research contribute to SDG achievement. According-ly, the present study is dedicated to providing a broad direction for initiatives (resilient infrastructure, sustainable management, environmentally friendly regulations, etc.) through further strengthening Van Lake's contribution to the SDGs by accurately identifying impediments and exploring possible and present issues. In addition, as Lake Van and its surroundings were recently designated as a "natural protected, sustainable conservation, and managed area", it should be appropriately conserved in addition to the actions taken to mitigate climate change impacts. The Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis is used in this study since it is one of the most well-known and robust approaches for strategic analysis. The study's findings highlight both the importance of improving communication among the shareholders to build cooperative connections and the importance of developing new ways to integrate the SDGs into regulatory and policy plans to innovative infrastructure planning and investment solutions. It is aimed to encourage regional developments about sustainable transportation for Lake Van by being carried out a SWOT analysis of IWT activities in Lake Van

Maritime operations have now become faster, safer, and more secure than before, as technological changes in the maritime industry have increased significantly over the past decade. However, no matter how advanced the technology is, removing the human variable from maritime operations is still impossible. Cybersecurity is one of the primary concepts that both enhance human adaptation to technology and reduce risk within the maritime industry. Training and raising situational awareness of maritime cybersecurity are the most basic of many defences to reduce vulnerabilities resulting from human beings not adopting technological changes. Therefore, this study proposes that maritime students’ cybersecurity awareness should be investigated. For this purpose, a questionnaire is used, including 3 attitude scales. This is presented and applied to a sample group including 168 participants representing the population. This evaluation of students’ cybersecurity awareness is aimed to provide taking the first steps to raise cybersecurity awareness in the maritime industry. In this study after a comprehensive investigation, quite striking findings have been obtained regarding awareness of maritime students' cyber security, and suggestions are made to increase students’ cybersecurity awareness in the maritime industry.

It is an undeniable fact that maritime transportation has a great impact on the world economy. Narrow waterways are as important as ships and ports for maritime transportation. In this context, it is possible to say that narrow waterways are also effective in the world economy. The Bosphorus is one of the most important narrow waterways that play an active role in the world economy. As in every narrow waterway, delays may occur in the Bosphorus, and the waiting periods affect the world economy. This study evaluates the current situation of the Bosphorus ship waiting queues and triggers the improvement of the process. In the article, the current status of the existing waiting queues for the Bosphorus is discussed and process optimization is carried out for the passage of ships in the Bosphorus in order to avoid waiting queues. Considering the current legislation, a tail model was designed for the passage of ships in the Bosphorus, and the current situation was revealed by comparing the designed modeling with the ship passage data of 2020. In addition, in this study, the Istanbul Strait ship transit data for the year 2020 were evaluated with descriptive analyzes of binary and multiple variables. The current situation presented in this study was evaluated together with the outputs of descriptive analyzes and suggestions were made to improve the passage of ships in the Bosphorus.