Approximately 8,000 merchant vessels travel the St. Lawrence each year. Its ports have become the catalysts that link trade, development and industrial innovation.
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Exporters and importers alike are facing more bureaucracy as the full effect of many of the Brexit changes come into effect.
The world needs robust supply chains that are founded on sustainability, collaboration, trust, transparency, visibility and diversification of supply.
All the extra profits that shipping companies have made from high freight rates should be put to good use.
The Biden administration is proposing a big increase in offshore wind power. A former state official explains how regulators find the best sites and balance competing interests.
An expert on global supply chains explains why shortages of many products have persisted throughout the pandemic.
Corruption and fraud make a few rich households richer. But the already poor and low-skilled lose their jobs and become poorer.
To rebuild lost credibility, the South African government can start by listening to social partners and the business sector and implementing less financially costly policies
Pandemic chaos has driven the cost of shipping through the roof.
The lasting problems of infrastructure aren’t of need or construction, but of overbuilding, delayed costs and the challenges of thinking ahead.
Sri Lanka is still grappling with the consequences of the cargo ship fire, which dumped tonnes of plastic and hazardous chemicals into the ocean.
To increase renewable energy use, the Biden administration wants the US to go from seven offshore wind turbines today to enough to power 10 million homes within a decade.
China’s signature foreign policy is controversial for lots of reasons. But the environmental damage potentially wrought by the project has received scant attention.
But they may not bring all the economic benefits that their proponents suggest.
In 1917, two ships collided in the port of Halifax, resulting in an explosion similar to the Aug. 4 blast in Beirut. Port explosions have devastating effects far beyond the site of the actual blast.
Abandoned containers of hazardous goods are found regularly in ports.
In the past, quarantines were often seen as an excuse for state intervention, and condemned as instruments of despotism.
Despite the delays caused by the coronavirus, China has the capability to at least comply with promises in the phase one trade deal with the US.
Malawi must change its diplomatic approach and align its national interests with Mozambique’s
The ‘thin green line’ of resistance against any new infrastructure for shipping oil, gas and coal abroad has won many battles.
Top contributors
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Maritime Logistics Expert, Centre for Supply Chain and Logistics (CSCL), Deakin University
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Faculty, Graduate Program on the Environment, Evergreen State College
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Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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Lecturer in Maritime Economics, University of Plymouth
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Professeur émérite de géographie, Université de Montréal
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Associate Professor of Sociology, School of Public Policy, Oregon State University
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Professor of Management, Co-Director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Adjunct professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor at the School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of International Relations, University of Copenhagen
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Director, Institute for Supply Chain and Logistics, Victoria University
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Associate Professor in Law, University of Adelaide
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Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer in Law, Deakin University
