The three-year ongoing IHATEC-funded project Port Energy Management Dashboard - dashPORT strives to enable port companies and terminal operators to achieve cost savings through a holistic energy-management of both the entire port and all parties that operate within.

The container is considered one of the best trade inventions of the past century, an essential enabler of the globalized economy.

Port Lockroy, a natural-harbour bay located on the northwestern shore of the Wiencke Island in the Palmer Archipelago in front of the Antarctic Peninsula, is home to the world's most southerly operational post office (700 km 'under' Argentina and Chile) - usually manned by four-five people, plus a few thousand gentoo penguins.

We're pleased to announce that the 5/20 issue is ready and - as always - packed with great reads.

"Analysts have long talked about the end of an American-led system and the arrival of an Asian century. This is now happening in front of our eyes," Josep Borrell, European Union Minister for Foreign Affairs, said.

In May 2020, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) released an update to its Vision 2050 report, titled The consequences of COVID-19 for the decade ahead.

We are living in unprecedented times with the coronavirus pandemic changing the way everyone will live for the short-term, if not forever.

Day by day, we are bombarded with statistics on the newspapers, television or online: "8.7 million people infected by COVID-19, almost half a million casualties, over 300 million job losses," and the list goes on.

According to the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the shipping industry's governing body, the sector is responsible for 2.2% of global emissions.

Shipping policy has embraced the tonnage tax as the main instrument to support national shipping lines.