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In a recent interview with DVZ, Professor Gordon Wilmsmeier, Director of the Kühne Professorial Chair in Logistics – Universidad de los Andes, shared his insights on the complexities of IMO decision-making and the potential impact of a flat-rate CO₂ tax on global shipping.

From a banana to a German supermarket, or a car to a Latin American port, a complex logistics chain is needed, and its operation is currently facing serious challenges.

Modern, automated and capable of handling large vessels, the new Peruvian terminal aims to be a gateway to Asia for South America. What impact could it have on regional trade and geopolitics?

Important ports in Latin America are about to begin the renewal of their concessions, a process that the leading analyst of the maritime-port industry, Ricardo Sanchez, observes with deep concern, given the magnitude of the challenge in terms of the investments required and the approach that this new stage will have.

In their latest paper, Jason Monios, Gordon Wilmsmeier – together with Gustavo Andres Martínez Tello, and Lara Pomaska -explore the evolving landscape of port governance in the context of climate change.

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…

A Uniandes project implemented a school boat for students from three villages in the bay.

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

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.

Santa Barbara de Iscuandé relies only on aquatic mobility for all transportation activities and the economy is based almost entirely on fishing and mangrove resource recollection. Given these scenarios, electric mobility rises as an alternative capable of enhancing people’s quality of life at the same time it helps sustainably preserve ancestral practices.

Four boats in Santa Bárbara de Iscuandé in Nariño are powered by batteries. Thanks to this, 25 women who hunt piangua do not waste fuel and do not row extensively. Behind it is a decade of effort at the hands of a German.