The Biscay Bridge, popularly known as the Hanging Bridge, was inaugurated on 28 July 1893 as the world's first shuttle bridge with a metallic structure.
Cast your imagination 50 years into the past over the mountains and lakes of Switzerland, and you won't see what today seems obvious, namely a safe passage for trucks throughout the Alps, known as the Gotthard Road Tunnel.
As the latest issue of BTJ is also devoted to the ro-ro & ferry market, whose players trade in trailers, it's maybe worth mentioning Alexander Winston who back in 1898 invented what's today know as a semi-trailer
We're continuing our search for innovative uses of a shipping container. This time we're attracting your attention to the Solar Powered Internet Schools (SPIS) project launched back in 2014 by Samsung Electronics through the Hope for Children initiative.
On 3 October, we'll be celebrating the 70th anniversary of the more than successful end to the Swedish oceanographic Albatross expedition, which - what a coincidence! - got its name because it took place aboard the Albatross.
An unusual monument in Lisbon reminds us of a peculiar flight, or should we rather say - a series of Atlantic flights from the Portuguese capital to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil that took place in 1922.
Another jubilee was celebrated in Poland and Sweden last year. On June 20th, 1967, Polsteam's ro-pax Gryf made her maiden voyage across the Baltic, between the ports of Świnoujście and Ystad.