The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said it plans to develop an versatile testing platform by 2025 to join global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create an eco-friendly maritime industry. Global shipbuilding and shipping markets are hastening a paradigm shift from the existing bunker oil vessels to an eco-friendly ship system in response to the International Maritime Organization's tightening regulations and the EU emissions trading system. Following the implementation of the Act on the Promotion of Environmentally Friendly Ship Development and Distribution in January of last y
Kitack Lim, Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization(IMO), recently called upon governments to vaccinate seafarers against Covid-19 on a preferential basis since they are at the forefront of world trade as key personnel in the global economy. The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on December 1 of last year to designate 2 million crew members and marine industry employees around the world as essential personnel and urge governments to facilitate the smooth rotation and repatriation of the crew. "In the Covid-19 crisis, seafarers are making a dedicated contribution to
It’s been a rollercoaster, highly volatile year for the container market. Shippers, forwarders and carriers alike have been facing significant levels of financial risk as the cost of moving containers around the world by sea has yo-yoed. Within the space of just a few months we saw China go into lockdown, only to re-open as COVID-19 spread across the rest of the world. Consumer demand has waxed and waned. The spring of 2020 saw sharp demand drops with European container imports declining by 20%, Indian exports down 31% and North American imports falling by 15%. By the autumn we saw ports busy
Of the government's budget for next year, 7.9 trillion won has been allocated to the 'Digital New Deal' plan. The project underlying the plan is establishing a 'Data Dam,' which refers to a 'cloud service integration platform' where we can store a large quantity of data and supply it to those in need. This will serve to select and store the data accumulated by public institutions and process it into usable forms. Data processing is a critical factor in AI development; therefore, establishing the 'Data Dam' can be a preliminary work to prepare for future industries. The name 'Data Dam' is also
Ports are getting smarter. The application of cutting-edge technology to port operations is becoming a big part of the recent Fourth Industrial Revolution in the maritime sector. We can divide smart ports into two concepts - 'automated ports' that automate the logistics process from a mechanical aspect and 'intelligent ports' of which decision-making is supported by generating, collecting, storing, designing, and analyzing various materials. While automated ports(the level of automated port facilities) are being built rapidly in many international ports such as Rotterdam, Long Beach, and Qingd
It is known that there are about 90 typhoons(also called cyclones or hurricanes) every year all around the world. Among the climate experts’ divided opinions, one persistently strong view says global warming has not significantly increased the number of typhoons, which is slightly different from what we feel these days. We recently experienced strong typhoons more frequently than years before. Even though there has been very little change in number, it is obvious that they are getting more ferocious year by year. Some studies show the power of the typhoons that hit East Asia, including Korea,
LOGISTICS - Mosolf relies on Wilhelmshaven in the long term - Ministry is skeptical The plans to integrate a RoRo terminal in the JadeWeserPort will only become possible in the medium term. Dr. Jörg Mosolf relies on the Hannoverkai at short notice. WILHELMSHAVEN. The Mosolf Group will be permanently involved in Wilhelmshaven. Like Dr. Jörg Mosolf announced yesterday, starting this year, the logistics company wants to organize the export of cars to Africa from Jade. First, you will use the existing loading facility at Hannoverkai in the Inner Harbor. In the medium term, you are aiming for a car
Kirchheim/Teck, 03 December 2019 – The MOSOLF Group is expanding its services related to the rail link along the New Silk Road. The automobile logistics specialist will transport finished vehicles of Chinese manufacturers on the “China-Europe Express Railway” to Europe in future and is now also offering Asian OEMs 4PL services in this context. “Through our network of business sites across Europe and our modern IT systems, we want to offer extensive 4PL solutions to automobile manufacturers based in Asia in partnership so that they can optimise their value-added chain,” said Wolfgang Göbel, CSO