Dear Readers, It is with great pleasure that I announce the latest, 45th issue of the quarterly Scientific Journals of the Maritime University of Szczecin.
The Journal has been published in the new format for over a year now. During this time, we have developed new publishing procedures, suitable for a modern journal, and directed towards providing open access to faciliate the sharing of peer-reviewed scientific results. We have also succeeded in improving the Journal's score in the official ranking published by the Ministry of Science and Higer Education of Poland, and our score in the Index Copernicus list. Further, the Journal has been indexed in InfoBase and the prestigious Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). All these activites have brought about an increasing interest in the Journal which is attributed to the joint effort of several individuals, including the staff of the Publishing House at the Maritime University of Szczecin, members of the Journal's Scientific Board, reviews, and consultants. As Editor-in-Chief, I would like to express my sincerest apprecation and thanks to all for their invaluable contribution.
