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The aim of this study is to analyse the changing role of state within the framework of governance concept and its potential impacts upon maritime commerce sector.  This transformation is in conformity with the process of governance which invites states to produce new strategies for effective governing and to formulate governance arrangements which are more sensitive to the interests of stakeholders in the maritime commerce industry. This paper asserts that these stakeholders ranging from public institutions and business circles to nongovernmental organizations act within governance networks where hierarchy is gradually replaced by cooperative arrangements. This discussion leads to the conclusion that on the one hand, state’s capacity and role in directing and coordinating these networks is enhancing, and on the other hand those are the economic and social demands peculiar to the governance network that will compel the state to assume this role. 

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