In early December 2024, Jack Ma, the Co-founder of the Alibaba Group, made a rare public appearance discussing how, over the next two decades, "AI will change everything."
Since the earliest days of ocean transport, microorganisms, plants, algae, and animals attached to vessel hulls have been a (literal) drag on the maritime industry.
Nuclear power has the potential to make a transformational impact on carbon emission reduction across the electricity, industrial and transportation sectors.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is driving a paradigm shift in transport and mobility, presenting solutions to some of Europe's most pressing challenges in sustainability, efficiency, and safety.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is driving a paradigm shift in transport and mobility, presenting solutions to some of Europe's most pressing challenges in sustainability, efficiency, and safety.
We are pleased to share that the third edition of Port Gear - a special edition of the Baltic Transport Journal - is ready, 'tooled up' with reads that will get you into high gear!
I hope you're all feeling sparky this autumn - and that sincerely comes from somebody for whom September and October proved to be quite challenging health-wise. On that note, anybody caring about sea shipping probably feels the same - hopes for the industry to find itself in fine fettle as the years to come will surely prove to be nothing but demanding. We don't even have to speak about decades to come with all those IMO targets. The EU Emission Trading System is already here, while the FuelEU Maritime Regulation is banging on the industry's hatch. We recently had the opportunity to partake in a conference organised by one of the biggest players in the business of moving goods and people by sea - and boy, these Southerners do not beat around the bush when sharing their thoughts about regional regulations aimed at greening shipping! But what was interesting, too, were the things hidden in between words. For more on that, check our Radicalism and/vs realism coverage in the Events section.