The 2024 Climate Action in Shipping: Progress toward Shipping's 2030 Breakthrough is the third report in an annual series that reviews five 'system change levers' across the maritime value chain and ascertains whether actions across these levers are aligned - or are aligning - with what would be necessary to meet the 5-10% scalable zero emission fuel (SZEF) goal by 2030.

Il Gruppo Autostrade per I'Italia ("ASPI") pubblica il suo primo Piano di Transizione Climatica che delinea le strategie e gli obiettivi per passare ad un'economia a basse emissioni di gas serra e adattare le proprie infrastrutture alla sfida rappresentata dai fenomeni climatici estremi. Questa iniziativa è in linea con gli obiettivi dell'Accordo di Parigi, in particolare con l'obiettivo di limitare l'aumento della temperatura media globale a 1,5 °C rispetto ai livelli preindustriali.

This report investigates innovative delivery methods - including porters, bicycles, and automated pods and drones - that may enhance the efficiency and security of the final delivery step.

There has been a flurry of investment in energy, ports, and logistics across the Middle East as well an international expansion of the region's leading maritime groups. Seatrade speaks to industry leaders about recent developments in the Middle East offshore and maritime industries, with an eye on future ambitions

The 2023-2024 ICS Barometer is the latest full scale annual survey of risk and confidence among maritime leaders.

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The action plan offers a strategic approach to driving sustainable, resilient development in the Pacific's Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) countries - Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu - through green trade initiatives.

This Bill would nationalise franchised passenger railway services when existing contracts with private sector operators come to an end.

While the total number of global terminal operators (GTOs) featuring in the Drewry league tables remained unchanged at 21 in 2023, the composition has changed significantly. The league tables that are a central feature in the latest edition of Drewry's Global Container Terminal Operators Annual Review and Forecast now include Adani, AD Ports Group and Hapag-Lloyd, while the acquisition of SAAM Ports and Bolloré has removed these two companies from the rankings.

World Tariff Profiles is a co-publication of the WTO, ITC and UNCTAD on market access for goods. This annual publication provides comprehensive information on the tariffs and non-tariff measures imposed by over 170 countries and customs territories.

L'economia mondiale è ancora in crescita. Si prevede, infatti, un aumento del prodotto interno lordo mondiale del 3,2% stabile ogni anno per tutto il triennio 2023-2025 con un commercio globale che vede le sue stime al +0,3% nel 2023 per poi progressivamente crescere del 3% nel 2024 e del 3,3% nel 2025 (Fondo Monetario Internazionale, aprile 2024).

The Container Port Performance Index (CPPI) measures the time container ships spend in port, making it an important point of reference for stakeholders in the global economy. These stakeholders include port authorities and operators, national governments, supranational organizations, development agencies, and other public and private players in trade and logistics. The index highlights where vessel time in container ports could be improved.

The EU is committed to becoming climate neutral by 2050, meaning that all sectors that emit greenhouse gases are called on to decarbonise. The Commission saw renewable hydrogen as one way to decarbonise hard-to-electrify industries in particular. It published an EU Hydrogen Strategy in mid-2020 and updated it with its REPowerEU plan(opens in new window) in 2022.

The global yachting market continues to grow, having reached 33 billion euros over the course of the most recent available year, over 25 billion of which derived from the superyacht segment alone. An expanding trend has also been recorded for the Italian boatbuilding industry, having increased by 20% on the previous year with a turnover of 4.4 billion. This is the snapshot of the global yachting market that emerges from the joint study by the Italian Marine Industry Association and Deloitte entitled "The state of the art of the global yachting market".

I sistemi spaziali stanno diventando sempre più numerosi e vitali per il funzionamento della società, rivestendo un ruolo cruciale anche nelle operazioni militari. Con l'espansione della space economy e la crescente rilevanza assunta dai dati forniti dai satelliti, questi ultimi sono inevitabilmente diventati obiettivi appetibili per attacchi o sabotaggi non cinetici, che includono minacce cyber e operazioni nello spettro elettromagnetico.

From raw material extraction and usage of digital technologies to waste generation, the report explores the nature and scale of the sector's environmental footprint, which remains largely unassessed.

Nel presente rapporto vengono analizzati i risultati economico-finanziari relativi al 2023 di 10 società. Ricordiamo che MSC, leader di mercato insieme al gruppo Maersk, non è inserita tra le società analizzate, in quanto non rende pubblici i propri bilanci.

The report findings offer clear directions for the future, highlighting the importance of actively engaging ECE member States and partner international organizations in fast-tracking the implementation of trade facilitation measures, particularly those leveraging digital technologies to foster climate-smart, sustainable trade practices.

Porti e logistica sono fattori di sviluppo fondamentali per la crescita del Paese: a livello economico, la portualità, oltre ad avere una propria rilevante dimensione produttiva (con una grande capacità di indotto, di lavorazioni, di servizi commerciali e finanziari che essi naturalmente producono), rappresenta un supporto imprescindibile dell'import-export (e del turismo), dell'attivazione del PIL e dell'occupazione dell'intero Paese.

This document outlines the future paths towards the evolving target railway system. It has been compiled having taken account of inputs from sector stakeholders. Regular updates are foreseen to integrate those.