Author: Sara Manuela Graciano Correa

The intensity and frequency of disruptive events of global impact has increased in recent years, reducing the time of ‘stability’ or ‘normality’. A case in point is Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a war that – for the time being and almost three years after its start – has no prospect of an end.

Dr Ricardo J Sanchez, Co-Director of the Kühne Professorial Chair in Logistics – Universidad de los Andes, presented the basis document of the Foro Fluvial Sudamericano, which not only provides an analysis of the current state of South America’s waterways, but also proposes a new paradigm to maximise the use of these currently under-utilised waterways to improve hashtag#logistics infrastructure and mobility in the region.

The Maritime Anti-Corruption Network, the Center for Shipping and Global Logistics at  Kuehne Logistics University, the Facultad de Administracion, Universidad De Los Andes, and the Laboratory of Integrated Port Economy, University of Piraeus are holding an in-person event in Hamburg to promote inter-industry dialogue on tackling corruption in seaports and terminals and discuss how best to advance integrity in maritime supply chains building on work on the Global Port Integrity Platform (GPIP) and the GPIP White Paper – developed by a research team led by PortEconomics members Thanos Pallis and Gordon Wilmsmeier.

Thanks to technological advances and the development of new vehicles, the transport sector is exploring new ways to make its operation environmentally sustainable.