As part of the ongoing discussions on the future FuelEU Maritime Initiative, the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) expresses the commitment of European ports to play their part in helping the shipping sector decarbonise.

Boudewijn Siemons (56) has been appointed as the new Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Port of Rotterdam Authority as of 1 October 2020. As such, Siemons will also be joining the Port Authority’s Executive Board. Boudewijn Siemons succeeds Ronald Paul in this role.

The  inclusion  of  shipping  in  the  EU  Emissions  Trading  System  (ETS),  which  European  lawmakers  have recently  supported,  has  ignored  calls  from  INTERCARGO  and  the  industry  as  a  whole,  for  collaboration  and  adapted  solutions  to achieve  the  much  needed  reduction  in  Greenhouse  Gas  (GHG)  emissions  for  greener shipping.  Far from being a meaningful contribution towards meeting those objectives, this moveis,  instead, a confirmation of how distanced the thinking of European decision-makers is from the global dimensions of the shipping sector.

The projects of Algeciras Port Authority (Spain), Port of Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Port Authority of Lisbon (Portugal) and Puertos del Estado (Spain) have been shortlisted for the 12th European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) Award on Social Integration of Ports. The jury selected these four applications from a total of seven submissions. The theme of this year’s edition is “Enhancing the port-city relationship by encouraging innovators and local start-ups to be part of the port ecosystem”.

International Finance Corporation (IFC), Inspire Impact and the World Ocean Council Collaborate on Event to Explore Pacific Blue Economy Investment Opportunities

AntwerpXL will bring breakbulk professionals from all over the world a two-day digital festival set to support and explore the future of the industry. The digital festival will provide the industry with a range of networking opportunities and live debate on 21 and 22 September.

North Sea Container Line, Northern Europe's largest integrated shipping and logistics company has selected Globe Tracker, a leader in IoT (Internet of Things) tracking and monitoring solutions for logistics assets to install tracking and monitoring solutions for their reefer containers.

StocExpo, the world’s leading bulk liquid storage event, is searching for the industry’s most dynamic professionals under the age of 40. The new initiative will celebrate the next generation of individuals operating at the top of their game in the tank storage, bulk liquid and linked supply chain professions.

DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY – More payments will be made through card than cash in Germany in 2020, according to global market research company Euromonitor International. A first in history for the German consumer payment market.According to the white paper “The German Consumer: Rapid Evolution Amidst the Crisis” total card payment transaction value in Germany is projected to surge by 28%, while cash transactions will drop by 34% in 2019-2025.

No one could have predicted that our world would come to a pause because of a virus, that millions of lives would be forever changed, that economies would be severely impacted, and social interactions would take a completely different form.

Our journey has taken a different turn, and Expo 2020 will now run one year later than expected, from 1 October 2021 to 31 March 2022. But this has only strengthened the significance of our founding promise – to connect minds and create the future.

International Labour Organization Director-General, Guy Ryder, expresses deep concern about the detention and arrest of trade unionists in Belarus.

On 11th September 2020, Ocean Harvesting Technologies, a Swedish pre-commercial renewable energy company striving to be a market leader in wave energy technology, announced a €300 000 investment from Lundin Foundation. The investment matches a €300 000 grant from the Swedish Energy Agency to provide Ocean Harvesting Technologies with the required funding to prototype the next development phase of the company’s novel InfinityWEC technology.

After 88 years the historic four-masted barque PEKING returned to its home port. Monday morning, the former sailing cargo ship left the shipyard “Peters Werft”, where it was successfully restored on behalf of the Hamburg Maritime Foundation (Stiftung Hamburg Maritim). At her interim berth at Bremerkai, the PEKING will be converted into the main attraction of the future German Port Museum by the Hamburg Historical Museums Foundation (Stiftung Historische Museen Hamburg).

The Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF), the voluntary association of oil companies, has today announced that it has overhauled its committee structure in order to focus its resources on identifying and mitigating issues of highest-risk to its members and to the marine industry as determined by its re-energised strategy.

Key industry media to host a programme of web events

Following the cancellation of the Posidonia Exhibition this October, the organisers are bringing together leading maritime media and organisations during what would have been Posidonia exhibition week for a series of web conferences and forums under the banner "It’s time to talk". At this critical time, it is an initiative that creates an opportunity for the maritime community to debate the crucial issues and the many challenges it is facing.