Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) are generally considered a source of growth. However, especially investments of state-controlled foreign enterprises in critical technologies and infrastructure, such as ports, cause concerns again and again.
It's probably safe to assume that during the 26 June 2016 referendum on whether to stay in or leave the EU, as well as the heated debate prior to it, the man on the Clapham omnibus did not go to the trouble of scrutinizing how exactly the customs procedures would look like if the UK decided to file for divorce.
When I finished my MBA studies back in Hamburg in 1999, I had this gut feeling that it will be a stepping stone for developing an international managerial career, "international" being the key word here.
Ask virtually any shipper, EU policymaker, or especially a representative of the European rail freight community, and you'll hear that they all want more goods transported on rails.
How the shipping sector lobbies to stay out of the Paris Agreement. The paper painted a sobering picture of how deeply ingrained and powerful corporations are at the IMO, and how they have successfully slowed down progress on the environmental protection regulation.
The Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP) was developed over a decade ago to bring together the often separated individual efforts aimed at protecting the Baltic Sea. When it was introduced in 2007, it was met with great enthusiasm by the region's countries.
Synchro-NET is a logistics project aiming at developing an innovative tool set, to find the best possible succession of carriers between the sender and the consignee, and compare several multi-modal solutions, including ship, train, and road transportation.
