Morocco Fashion Style & Tex to Take Place in Casablanca from April 2 to 5, 2026 Casablanca, Morocco - April 2026

As the fuel market crisis intensifies across the EU, IRU has urged its transport ministers to take immediate and coordinated EU-level action to keep supply chains moving and protect people’s mobility.

As the fuel market crisis intensifies across the EU, IRU has urged its transport ministers to take immediate and coordinated EU-level action to keep supply chains moving and protect people’s mobility.

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (“K” LINE) has launched its annual safety campaign 2025-2026, focusing on the prevention of accidents related to injuries, generator troubles, and GPS-related incidents. This campaign is conducted every winter and aims to further promote and enhance safety awareness by sharing information both onboard vessels and onshore. As of today, more than 200 vessels and approximately 4,200 participants have taken part in this campaign, including about 430 onshore staff and managers.

The escalating conflict in the Middle East and the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz is set to become a major operational challenge for ship maintenance and safety, and not just for those ships operating in and around the Gulf.

The population of the European eel has collapsed by more than 90% since the 1980s. Yet, dozens of tonnes of juveniles, known as glass eels, are thought to be poached each year and shipped live to aquaculture farms outside Europe.

Despite decades of progress, inequalities continue to compromise global water security, disproportionally impacting women and girls, who despite of being the main collectors of water, continue to be excluded from water management and leadership roles.

The Mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, was accompanied by the Spanish Government’s Delegate in Catalonia, Carlos Prieto, the Executive President of the Consorci de la Zona Franca de Barcelona (CZFB), Pere Navarro, and the CZFB’s General Director, Blanca Sorigué.

The escalating conflict in the Middle East has triggered the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz and continued disruptions in Suez Canal transit, which has remained depressed since 2024 and has not recovered since. The Suez Canal is one of the main chokepoints in the world with around 10% to 15% of world commerce passing through it. This commentary presents our view on the impact of these disruptions across our European port terminals rated portfolio.

Strong organic growth drives additional hall capacity and rising international participation

transport logistic China and air cargo China will significantly expand their exhibition footprint in 2026. Around 850 exhibitors are expected, up from 794 in 2024, with more than 600 companies already registered. Visitor numbers are projected to rise from 36,000 in 2024 to approximately 40,000 in 2026.

Softlink Global Partners with ISTE to Bring Real Logistics Technology into Engineering Education

Softlink Global has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), one of India’s largest professional bodies for technical education with a network of over 100,000 faculty members and hundreds of thousands of engineering students across the country.

Around 20,000 seafarers on vessels operating in the Middle East are facing a dangerous and highly uncertain security situation as the conflict in the region continues," said World Shipping Council President & CEO Joe Kramek. Multiple commercial vessels have been struck since the beginning of the conflict, including a container ship that was hit overnight.

Investment programmes worldwide – currently particularly dynamic in India – demonstrate how strongly ports are investing in modernization, digitalisation and sustainable infrastructure - key topics of all about ports conference in Hamburg.

Chapman Freeborn maintains an active global crisis response framework and has been arranging emergency passenger and cargo charter flights, including evacuation missions, amid ongoing geopolitical instability in the Middle East and disruption to global aviation routes.

The new UN World Water Development report, to be published on March 19, warns that persistent gender inequalities in access to water and leadership are exacerbating the global water crisis: 2.1 billion people still lack safely managed drinking water billions still lack basic water and sanitation The latest data shows that women and girls are still largely responsible for collecting water in most unserved rural households, with impacts ranging from lost education, to health risks and heightened vulnerability to violence. They also remain underrepresented in water governance despite their central role in water provision and resilience.