While the Amazon is burning and Greta Thunberg is raising awareness of the climate crisis, the transport industry still accounts for a staggering 27% of all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Europe.
The location of the Port of Södertälje, in the middle of Sweden's coast and just next to one of Europe's fastest-growing regions, promotes efficient, rapid, and environmentally-friendly transport, a vital 'commodity' given that climate change is one of our era's defining problems.
"Stockholm is a port that got its city, not the other way around." These words set the tone for this year's edition of the Baltic Port Organization's (BPO) annual get-together, the biggest meeting of the regional port industry, underscoring the importance of maritime trade for the well-being of the Baltic Sea region's economies and peoples.
The European transport and logistics industry faces numerous challenges: inadequate parking capacity, cargo theft, and driver fatigue, to name but a few.
On the occasion of the visit of a business delegation from the Port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands Embassy and the Netherlands-Polish Chamber of Commerce organised, at CLIP's new premises in Swarzędz in west-central Poland, a conference and networking event that went under the title "Towards Efficient and Sustainable Transport & Logistics."
Some ships live to see a rather unhappy ending, like the high-speed craft Tallink Autoexpress 2 which has fallen victim to the political unrest and economic misery in Venezuela. Laid up and left to rot, it eventually halfsank in Puerto de Guanta.
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