INAUGURAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS Welcome to the 2022 Inaugural Edition of Journal of Merchant Ship Wind Energy. JMWE will publish reviewed research articles dealing with wind energy as it applies to commercial ships. We are now accepting submissions for our inaugural issue. JMWE is committed to the free and open exchange of information, and will publish under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ ).