The European road transport sector is facing the most acute professional driver shortage in decades, a new report by the International Road Transport Union (IRU) has found.

Geir Håøy and Remi Eriksen, the respective CEOs of KONGSBERG and DNV GL, are the latest names to sign up for Nor-Shipping’s new Ocean Leadership Conference on 4 June. The event, traditionally seen as the week’s opening conference, has been refined this year to focus on analysing, defining and enabling ocean industry leadership for a new era of business opportunity. It’s a format that has seemingly struck a chord with the industry; with Nor-Shipping confirming the conference is already approaching ‘sold out’ status.

The world's fastest growing ship registry and the oldest shortsea shipping association in Europe have joined forces to support the growing number of Greek vessels operating in the short-sea maritime sector.

The Panama Canal Authority and A.P. Moller – Maersk A/S are the latest entities to join the IMO-supported Global Industry Alliance to Support Low Carbon Shipping (GIA).

Event’s growing role fueled by Greece’s status as top cruise destination, impending port privatisations and a return to stability of regional geopolitical hotspots

Despite accounting for a mere 0.12% the UK’s overall economic output, fishing is one of the most contentious issues in the Brexit jumble. Highly politicised, negotiations on the future fisheries regime could tarnish the overall outcome of British departure from the EU.

The “Eurasian Rail Alliance Index” (ERAI) which reflects the indicative cost of rail transit services on the 1,520 mm railway gauge used in the former USSR, has been included in the February issue of the «Sea and Air Shipper Insight» report prepared by Drewry, the leading independent provider of research and consulting services to the maritime and shipping industry. This marks the first time that the role of Eurasian rail transit has been recognized and highlighted on an international level.

The Clean Shipping Alliance 2020 (CSA 2020) has won the Clean Shipping category of this year's Green4Sea Awards, which took place yesterday in Athens, Greece.

Imperial Logistics has appointed Dr. Iain Barton to the newly-created position of Executive Vice President – Healthcare. Iain, currently Imperial Logistics’ Healthcare Strategy Executive based in Cape Town in South Africa, is the latest addition to the recently introduced global sales structure, headed by Imperial Logistics International Chief Commercial Officer, Sandro Knecht. A key feature of this is sector-specific business development posts. In his new role, Iain will be responsible for identifying and exploiting healthcare opportunities both within Imperial Logistics’ existing geographic structure, and in new markets.

Marlink secures contract to provide global satellite voice and data connectivity services for five adventure cruise ships in the O.A.T. Small Ships fleet

The Round Table of international shipping associations plus the OCIMF representing the global shipping and oil industry have announced the geographic boundaries of the 'High Risk Area' for piracy in the Indian Ocean have been reduced, with new advice issued to merchant ship operators.

• Maritime UK's Women in Maritime Taskforce will meet in Belfast today to launch two new initiatives to help improve the sector's gender diversity.
• The Taskforce will be launching a 'Speaker Bank', which will provide a database of female speakers to panels and conferences and an 'Interview Pool', which will loan maritime women to other companies, enabling greater diversity on interview panels.
• The resources, which will be the first of their kind, aim to respond to challenges identified by the Taskforce's work.
• Traditionally the maritime sector has been a classically male-dominated industry.

Around 200 participants gathered during the first day of the ninth edition of the Transport Weeek conference. The event, held at the Courtyard by Marriott Waterfront hotel in Gdynia, Poland, on 5-7 March, 2019, focused on port investments, in-depth analysis of the port market, accompanied by an outlook for the near future.

“2019 is a year for dry cargo owners to prepare their vessels for landmark changes in shipping”

Around 80 participants gathered on March 5th in Gdynia, Poland, to discuss matters related to the issue of air pollution in ports. The seminar, organized by the Baltic Ports Organization, was aimed at evaluating the influence air pollution has on day-to-day operations in ports and cities they are a part of. It also gave an overview of tools available to port authorities in their quest to improve their environmental standards.