Norway, 23 March, 2020: Passage through Northern shipping routes and Arctic waters has received a boost following the doubling of the connectivity speed of the Iridium CertusTM network, says maritime communications specialist IEC Telecom.

Facilitating Crew Changes to Keep World Trade Moving Throughout the Covid-19 Crisis

As the COVID-19 pandemic takes hold it is vital that all governments keep maritime trade moving by continuing to allow commercial ships access to ports worldwide and by facilitating the movement and rapid changeover of ships' crews.

The coronavirus pandemic is creating huge challenges for the service partners of Messe München: Many of them have been put into a difficult financial position due to the cancellation or postponement of various events. As a way of standing by these companies at this challenging moment, Messe München has joined with relevant institutions to inform the company's service partners about ways that they can get through this event-free period. The team of Messe München conducted the informational meeting via video stream.

As main players in the supply of essential goods and materials to European citizens, Europe’s ports are doing everything possible to ensure and guarantee the continuity of their operations in the coming weeks while protecting their staff and trying to avoid the further spread of the Corona virus.

When you’re trying to save the world you can be forgiven for sounding a little tired.
And Boyan Slat, the Dutch wunderkind that exploded onto the environmental stage in 2012 with a TEDx talk on ocean plastic pollution, sounds exhausted.
Speaking over the phone from his base in the Netherlands he gives the impression he’s just got out of bed when, in reality, he sorely needs to get into it. However, listening to the scale of this 25-year old’s ambitions – the work that needs to be done – it quickly becomes apparent that he doesn’t have the time to sleep.
Because Boyan Slat, as you would expect from a ‘super hero’, is fighting a foe intent on taking over the planet.
Plastic.

On March 13, the German Federal Government announced specific measures to limit the spread of COVID-19. At the same time, the German Chancellor called on important industrial sectors – including the ports – to continue their operations. The Mayor of Hamburg has personally stressed to the management of the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) the utmost importance of the port, especially in these times, as a central economic and logistical hub.

CGI Lithuania, one of the largest Lithuanian IT services providers, announces a contract with Latvian state-owned energy company Latvenergo, responsible for 70% of energy supply in the Latvian market. The scope of the project is an overhaul of Latvenergo's technological asset maintenance and management system.

Technology is aiding China’s fight against the virus and also helping people cope with the stresses of a quarantined life. Ananth Krishnan, 2019 AsiaGlobal Fellow, gives his take on how China is deploying new Artificial Intelligence technologies in fighting the outbreak in his article in The Hindu. Read the passage and see what can be learned from China to fight against the COVID-19 epidemic.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread across the world. In a fast changing situation, the pandemic’s impacts on the daily life of people, businesses and governments grows longer by the hour.

Media release. Published: 11-Mar-2020 01:12 pm
Lappeenrannan kaupunki

On 3 March 2020, the City of Lappeenranta and Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT University) presented ways to manage climate change to EU decision-makers and international environmental organisations at the premises of the Committee of the Regions in Brussels.

Due to the impacts of the coronavirus situation, Finnair has already cancelled approximately 1,400 flights from its network and is now further adjusting its network to the decreased demand.

Tech start-ups and entrepreneurs will wow Posidonia 2020’s visitors and delegates this summer with their latest, high tech, digitally-enabled and data-driven solutions to age-old legacy problems, as well as with a fresher perspective for a more sustainable and efficient future for the shipping industry.

Ryanair today (Tues10Mar) announced the suspension of its  full flight schedule to/from and  within Italy, following the decision of the Italian Government to “lock down”the entire country to contain the spread of the Covid-19 virus.

According to research from IRU, the European road transport sector is facing a 13% increase in driver shortage in 2020.

IRU carried out research amongst small and medium transport and logistics companies in a number of European countries, calculating the commercial freight driver shortage on the continent to rise from 23% in 2019 to 36% in 2020.