Ask virtually any shipper, EU policymaker, or especially a representative of the European rail freight community, and you'll hear that they all want more goods transported on rails.
How the shipping sector lobbies to stay out of the Paris Agreement. The paper painted a sobering picture of how deeply ingrained and powerful corporations are at the IMO, and how they have successfully slowed down progress on the environmental protection regulation.
The Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP) was developed over a decade ago to bring together the often separated individual efforts aimed at protecting the Baltic Sea. When it was introduced in 2007, it was met with great enthusiasm by the region's countries.
Synchro-NET is a logistics project aiming at developing an innovative tool set, to find the best possible succession of carriers between the sender and the consignee, and compare several multi-modal solutions, including ship, train, and road transportation.
Having marked a new record in ro-ro traffic last year, with over one million trucks, trailers, and pax cars that went through its quays, the Port of Trelleborg currently finds itself in a middle of a rapid development.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) entered into force on 25 May. By introducing a new standard of data protection, it was designed to harmonize data privacy laws across the European Union.
Following the tragic casualty of Maersk Honam, which caught fire on 6 March taking the life of five crew members, and the sad fact that damaging container ship fires are all too frequent, it is timely, particularly for shippers and freight forwarders, to explain the dynamics of as well as risks associated with General Average.
