The Baltic Sea has a claim few other waters can make: it was the world's first Sulphur Emission Control Area, designated in 2006 and tightened to today's 0.10% limit in 2015.
Surely our sector's favourite watchdog, the European Court of Auditors (ECA), has recently published a new transport-focused report - on EU investments in the Western Balkans to connect the region to the bloc's Core Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T).
Launched in 2020 as part of Estonia's broad-based Shipping Package 1.0, the Estonian Transport Administration devised the EST Flag initiative to create conditions favourable to growing the nation's ship register.
This year's edition of the Baltic Ports Organization's (BPO) Baltic Ports Conference (BPC) was held in the Finnish Turku, on 2-4 September, bringing together maritime leaders, port authorities, and experts from the industry and beyond for high-level discussions.
Repeated disruptions at the world's maritime chokepoints are exposing the fragility of supply chains built around a handful of efficient and predictable corridors.
The now-biennial event returned to the island of Sardinia for the get-together of the Grimaldi Group, its agents, partners, clients, friends, and the media.
This year's flagship autumn event of ECG - The Association of European Vehicle Logistics drew around 550 participants to Denmark's capital for two days devoted to the theme Winds of Change. Understanding tomorrow, navigating towards the future.
Summer is, um, well, a bit under the bridge already - but not the dazzlingly hot 3-4/26 issue of the Baltic Transport Journal fresh outta oven! Just in time to keep you cosily warm during those autumn days.
