A container ship moves up through the winter ice in the St. Lawrence River, near the Port of Montréal. Approximately 8,000 merchant vessels travel the St. Lawrence annually. The importance of the river in all aspects of the economy is enormous and is expected to increase in the years to come.
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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.
Shipping containers are moved from the Fairview Cove Container Terminal In Halifax in May 2021.
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The world needs robust supply chains that are founded on sustainability, collaboration, trust, transparency, visibility and diversification of supply.
Ships waiting to dock at Los Angeles.
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All the extra profits that shipping companies have made from high freight rates should be put to good use.
Coming to U.S. waters? Here’s an aerial view of the Burbo Bank offshore wind farm in Liverpool Bay, England.
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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.
Consumers are still finding bare store shelves.
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An expert on global supply chains explains why shortages of many products have persisted throughout the pandemic.
State-owned enterprises, such as Transnet, which runs South Africa’s ports, loom large over the economy.
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Corruption and fraud make a few rich households richer. But the already poor and low-skilled lose their jobs and become poorer.
Creating a set of classification and grading rules for each agricultural product has proved cumbersome and added to costs of production.
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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
Ningbo-Zhousan: China’s second biggest port is subject to severe delays because of COVID.
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Pandemic chaos has driven the cost of shipping through the roof.
Constructing barge canals took a massive investment that didn’t pay off.
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The lasting problems of infrastructure aren’t of need or construction, but of overbuilding, delayed costs and the challenges of thinking ahead.
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Sri Lanka is still grappling with the consequences of the cargo ship fire, which dumped tonnes of plastic and hazardous chemicals into the ocean.
Building a U.S. offshore wind industry will require more than just fast-tracking permits.
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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.
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China’s signature foreign policy is controversial for lots of reasons. But the environmental damage potentially wrought by the project has received scant attention.
The path to freedom?
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But they may not bring all the economic benefits that their proponents suggest.
The wreckage of a ship at the devastated site of the explosion in the port of Beirut, Lebanon, on Aug.6, 2020.
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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.
The destroyed port in Beirut.
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Abandoned containers of hazardous goods are found regularly in ports.
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In the past, quarantines were often seen as an excuse for state intervention, and condemned as instruments of despotism.
Trump talks trade with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He.
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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.
A small boat carries passengers across the Zambezi river.
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Malawi must change its diplomatic approach and align its national interests with Mozambique’s
West Coast opponents of fossil fuel exports have blocked industry plans for years.
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The ‘thin green line’ of resistance against any new infrastructure for shipping oil, gas and coal abroad has won many battles.