Every year 'round November we sit down here at Youredi and discuss what the next year's logistics trends are going to look like. While we're an integration platform as a service (iPaaS) vendor, how companies arrange the worldwide flow of goods is crucially important to us.
Gdynia's shipyard CRIST is a well-established and experienced company specializing in shipbuilding, offshore constructions, steel structures, and sea and civil engineering. We're talking with Karolina Parkitna, Head of Administration Department, CRIST S.A., about the company's ongoing projects, advanced international collaboration as well as the current challenges of the labour market.
Passenger ferries have traditionally offered good eating, and food is very much one of the key comfort factors aboard ships. New ideas are being sought from well-known top chefs. In the 1970s and 80s, the buffet tables on ferries offered delicacies beyond anything we had seen in Finland.
CRIST S.A. is a leading European shipyard based in the Port of Gdynia. Established in 1990 by two Polish engineers, Ireneusz Ćwirko and Krzysztof Kulczycki, CRIST employs 1,500 workers and has 300 finished projects under its belt.
The conversation around whether more vigorous steps are needed to be taken to axe the sea shipping's carbon footprint often start with the 3% figure - the industry's contribution to human-caused climate change.
The Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T), initially adopted in 1996, was given new guidelines fordevelopment in December 2013 by the European Parliament and the European Council. It is expected to befully functioning by 2050, with parts classifed as the Core Network expected to be ready by 2030.
When we take a closer look at certain ports in the south of the Baltic, say the Polish Gdańsk or the Lithuanian Klaipėda, we can observe that their freight handlings in general, and container turnover in particular, have been advancing at a rapid pace for some time now.
It sometimes seems that the international freight transport arena is full of tiger pits. In particular, there's the matter of finding trustworthy partners and sub-contractors who are so vital to delivering a coordinated and seamless transport service across the globe.
In the beginning - as the saying goes - there was nothing. Then, in early 2015, the idea to establish a platform that would spur innovation in port, maritime, logistics, and energy sectors, industries which are intrinsically tied to each other, was born.
