The International Transport Forum's 2021 report, Transport Innovation for Sustainable Development: A Gender Perspective, combines articles from over 40 global transport experts, highlighting the necessity for the transport industry to consider the lifestyle, employment, and safety needs of women to help achieve higher efficiency, environmental sustainability, and innovative solutions in the sector.

Flows of money were already pouring into sustainable funds prior to the rendition of Amazing Grace by Garth Brooks at "green president" Biden's inauguration.

Last year when the Port of Turku's Erik Söderholm and I sat down for an interview, the coronavirus was just beginning to sweep through Europe.

Last year, less than 30 million tonnes of Russian cargo, some 3.6% of the country's entire port traffic, went through the seaports of the Baltic States, Finland, and Ukraine, a 1.5-time-drop on the 2019 volume.

Seaports are not only indispensable nodes for the proper functioning of global and regional supply chains, but they also propel local growth, increasingly so, in the so-called blue/green economy.

Reefers are one of the staples of globalisation.

Data from fleet management, ship operations, and port logistics have become an exceedingly valuable resource.

The shipping sector, navigating through the coronavirus pandemic disruption, has responded with many positive, progressive solutions.

In light of the many stresses experienced by the supply chain and logistics planners in 2020, no freight forwarders managed to distinguish or significantly differentiate themselves from their competitors in the eyes of their customers.

Through its established and vast network of sea shipping services, plus efficient road & rail hinterland connectivity (along the Finnish coast and all the way up to Russia), the Port of Naantali serves a number of trade lanes, be they for taking care of liquid and dry bulk or general cargo goods.