During the Baltic Ports Conference (BPC), the most important annual event for the Baltic Ports Organization (BPO), all its members and guests join together to discuss the key and most urgent issues for the port sector.
Congestion, especially on roads, is one of the biggest transport challenges. It costs Europe about 1% of its GDP every year and is the cause of significant carbon emissions.
It is the question European railways asked themselves last year when it became clear that, by the kickoff of the European Year of Rail in January 2021, the pandemic would still very much be with us - and would remain this way for some time.
International commerce and port cargo handling have always been major economic contributors, directly through turnover and gross value added to GDP and through more indirect benefits like job creation and infrastructure investments.
We wrote about the Gothenburg-based Greencarrier Group taking over The Swedish Ship Götheborg (Göteborg III), the replica of the 1738-launched Göteborg I, in the previous issue's Transport miscellany.
