**4. Challenges faced in harnessing the built environment for prevention of the spread of Covid-19**

It is pertinent to mentioned that it is important to harness and built the capacity of the entire built environment of maritime transport and other modes of transport to contribute to the fight against the transmission of the Covid-19 pandemic until an approved vaccine is developed for the disease. However, there exist a plethora of challenges to fast tracking of the processing and inputs towards improving the capacity of the maritime industry to actualized the dream of limiting the spread of the disease. Some of these challenges include:


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> environment to conform Covid-19 preventive plans may lead to shift (decline) productivity at least, in the short run. Thus this will influence the decision of what guidelines to fully implement and to what extent by firms.

