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New Paradigm for Waterways: Smart, Green and Safe

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.

Maritime integrity: an international debate on how best to advance the integrity of maritime supply chains

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.

In Nariño, people rely on solar-powered boats to fish in the Pacific.

In the municipality of Santa Bárbara de Iscuandé, families spend up to 12 hours a day fishing, and petrol costs can exceed 150,000 pesos per day. Geographer Gordon Wilmsmeier developed a project that aims to replace petrol engines with electric ones, helping to reduce pollution.