Wayne K. Talley (1942-2025) was Professor of Maritime and Supply Chain Management, the Frederick W. Beazley Professor of Economics, Eminent Scholar and Executive Director of the Maritime Institute at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.A.

ManWo Ng is Professor of Information Technology & Decision Sciences at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.A. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Maritime Transport Research.