During the winter and spring of 2024, Odesa in Ukraine was my home for five months. By then, the full-scale invasion had been ongoing for two years. I was there on an EU assignment to determine what needs to be done to bring the country's maritime sector closer to Europe and prepare for future EU accession.
Year 2026 has set off to a particularly peculiar welcome by filling the days (and the Baltic Sea and its ports) with unusually low temperatures and snow falling more than expressively. Kids, that is how winter looked in my youth (and I'm not that old!)! But no worries! We have got something to keep you warm and fuzzy - the latest and greatest issue, fresh from the oven!
Undoubtedly, the not insignificant uptake of bio liquefied natural gas (bioLNG) as marine bunker by many shipping lines trading in the Baltic was one of the brightest transport & logistics highlights of 2025.
Undoubtedly, the not insignificant uptake of bio liquefied natural gas (bioLNG) as marine bunker by many shipping lines trading in the Baltic was one of the brightest transport & logistics highlights of 2025.
The European Court of Auditors (ECA) has released an update to its 2020 special report that inspected eight so-called ‘transport flagship infrastructures' (TFIs) - mega-projects of the Core part of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T).
Project CAPTURED, conducted last year by the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation, produced the world's first end-to-end demonstration of a maritime carbon value chain based on real operational data.